Bolo

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Bolo may be:

• Bolo knife, a Filipino machete used for agricultural purposes and as a weapon.
• Bolo punch, a wide sweeping uppercut used in boxing.
• Bolo tie, decorative string with an ornament clasp worn around the neck, worn in the American West, also known as a bola tie
• a community or tribe in bolo'bolo (1983), by Swiss author P.M..
• Bolo, a slang term for Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War.

In military:

• Bolo Shell, a type of specialty shotgun shell
• Bolo (self-aware tank), a type of enhanced artificially intelligent tank appearing in the science fiction of Keith Laumer. The word was vaguely taken from the US Army use.
• B-18 Bolo, a United States Army Air Corps bomber aircraft from the 1930s

In places:

• Bolo, Central African Republic
• Bolo, Ethiopia, a village in Ethiopia
• Bolo, Tibet, a township in Tibet
• O Bolo, Galicia, Spain
• Viana do Bolo, Galicia, Spain

In people:

• Bolo Yeung, Chinese actor and martial artist
• Bolo, a spanish footballer
• Bolo, nickname for Roberto Luongo - a goaltender for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League

In gaming:

• Bolo (computer game), a computer game in which players battle each other with tanks.
• Bolo (breakout clone), an enhanced clone of the classic Breakout computer game for the Atari ST

Acronyms:

• BOLO, an acronym used by law enforcement for "Be On The Lookout".

[edit] See also

• Bolas, a throwing rope with weights at both ends to entangle prey.

• Bolo (slang), anything good in life; it is often yelled in a drunken rage.