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bolo

[boh-loh] / ˈboʊ loʊ /
NOUN
bolo tie
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NOUN
machete
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The bolo makes Lynch look a bit like “Blue Velvet’s” demented antagonist, Frank Booth, a rockabilly nightmare played by Dennis Hopper.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025

A chicken salad sandwich featured notably tender chicken-hunks — cooked in a combi oven — with local crabapple sauce, a restrained allspice-ginger aioli and pickled radish for contrast, all on a warm, cushy bolo roll.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023

Perhaps the most confounding person on the list is Ben Nighthorse Campbell, a Coloradan who, according to the Times, would wear bolo ties and “roar… around town on a highly accessorized Harley-Davidson.”

From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2022

"More than anything my TikTok is a work tool," said Novoa, who also sells bolo through his channel.

From Reuters ● Nov. 12, 2022

When Luke looked at Ricky, he realized he was wearing a pair of pressed blue jeans and a button-up cowboy shirt, complete with bolo tie.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss

Campbell wore his hair in a salt-and-pepper ponytail; fashioned traditional, Native American jewelry on the side; and eschewed neckties, de rigueur for Senate attire, in favor of bolos when appearing on the floor.

From Fox News ● Jul. 8, 2020

He wore bolos and flannel shirts and polyester pants.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 30, 2018

And I did recently rip into my own grandmother for buying Thomas' English Muffins when she has a local bakery nearby making artisan Portuguese bolos — which everyone knows is better!

From Chicago Tribune ● Dec. 27, 2010

There were a few shrieks, and bolos whizzed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Suspended from their many-colored sashes were barongs, campilans or bolos, and tiny bells were fastened into the lobes of their ears.

From The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old by Florence Partello Stuart

You've been boloed on outpost and gone to heaven, and you don't know it.'

From Sonnie-Boy's People by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

"I'd rather be boloed than tell you," he said.

From The Tracer of Lost Persons by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers




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