bolo

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbəʊ.ləʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈboʊ.loʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊləʊ

From Philippine Spanish.

bolo (plural bolos)

1. A long, heavy, single-edged machete.
2. (attributive) a type of punch; an uppercut.
   • 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, p. 141:

     He jerked me off balance and the hand with the brass knucks came around in a looping bolo punch.

• golok (Indonesian)
• machete
• parang
• tabak (Filipino)

bolo (third-person singular simple present bolos, present participle boloing, simple past and past participle boloed)

1. To attack or despatch with a bolo knife.

Supposedly named after Bolo Pascha, a German agent in France during World War I.

bolo (plural bolos)

1. A soldier not capable of the minimum standards of marksmanship.

bolo (third-person singular simple present bolos, present participle boloing, simple past and past participle boloed)

1. To fail to meet the minimum standards of marksmanship.

From Argentine Spanish boleadora (“lariat”).

bolo (plural bolos)

1. A string or leather necktie secured with an ornamental slide.

bolo (third-person singular simple present bolos, present participle boloing, simple past and past participle boloed)

1. (transitive, nonce word) To dress (somebody) in a bolo.
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.

An acronym of Be on the lookout.

• BOLO

bolo (plural bolos)

1. (US law enforcement) A request for law enforcement officers to be on the lookout for a suspect.

• all-points bulletin, APB

• “bolo” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

• Lobo, bloo, bool, lobo, loob, obol

bolo

1. arm

Unknown.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔlo̝/

bolo m (plural bolos)

1. sand lance (Ammodytes)

   Synonym: areeiro

From bola (“piece of bread”), from Latin bulla (“buble”).

Bolos

• IPA^(key): /ˈbolo̝/

bolo m (plural bolos)

1. bun, roll
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 129:

     Para esto ual o ouo torrado ataa que se faça duro et depois tollelle a casca et faz tal como bollo

     For this you must use egg, roasted till its hard; remove then the shell and make a roll with it

2. piece of bread
   • 1396, M. Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 449:

     daredes hun dia de seara de cada anno en a nosa granja de Vales, e hun bolo de triigo

     and you'll give a day of work each year at our farm of Vales, and a piece of wheat bread

3. ball of butter

   Synonym: pela

4. lump

   Synonym: grumo

5. clod

   Synonym: terrón

6. pebble

   Synonym: croio

• bolo do pote (“dumpling”)
• furabolos (“forefinger”, literally “bun-piercer”)

• bola

• “bolo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “bolo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “bolo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “bolo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

bolo (plural boli)

1. bowl

From Late Latin bōlus (“clod of earth, lump”), from Ancient Greek βωλος (bōlos, “clod, lump”).

• Rhymes: -ɔlo

bolo m (plural boli)

1. bolus
2. cud

• lobo, oblò

From French bore.

bolo class 9a

1. boron

From bola.

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbolu/

bolo m (plural bolos)

1. (cooking) cake
   1. dessert made with dough and sugar; common in celebrations
   2. any of various snacks made with dough, both sweet and salty

      Synonym: bolinho

2. bunch, heap, mass (load of some material or of beings)

   Synonyms: monte, amontoado

   1. a bunch of money
3. prize, reward

   Synonyms: prêmio, recompensa

4. (Brazil) something said or done to mislead or deceive

   Synonyms: enganação, burla

5. (Brazil) disarray, disorder chaos

   Synonyms: desordem, caos, confusão

• bolo alimentar / bolo alimentício
• bolo histérico
• dar o bolo

• Kabuverdianu: bolu

Non-lemma forms.

bolo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of bolar

• IPA^(key): /ˈbolo/

From Latin bolus.

bolo m (plural bolos)

1. bolus
2. (in the plural) bowling

bolo (feminine singular bola, masculine plural bolos, feminine plural bolas)

1. (colloquial, Central America) drunk; sloshed

• bolencia

• bola

A shortening of bolívar.

bolo m (plural bolos)

1. (Venezuela, slang) A bolívar (Venezuelan unit of currency)

bolo m (plural bolos)

1. (colloquial) gig

• “bolo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

bolo

1. bolo

• gulok