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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

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

Those attending the largest annual gathering of Natives in Alaska showered her with standing ovations, spontaneous songs and gifts, including a bolo tie worn by her Republican predecessor, the late Don Young.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2022

The off-brown suit and bolo tie are dead giveaways.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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

The General went at once himself where the germs were thickest, the bolos sharpest.

From Time Magazine Archive

He took at once one chicken and fifteen bolos and held the ceremony liblibian.

From Kankanay Ceremonies (American Archaeology and Ethnology) by C. R. Moss

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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