bolo
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Cowboy Bob, who is about 20 feet tall, plays guitar and wears a bolo tie, is one of several oversize fiberglass mascots along 11th Street in the Meadow Gold District of Tulsa.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
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
Who don’t know how to wear a bolo tie properly or know that it’s bad luck to put a cowboy hat on a bed.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
He was wearing black jeans, a nice pressed shirt with a bejeweled bolo tie, and a cowboy hat.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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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
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Then came an unexpected fire from a cane-brake, and out dashed fully two hundred savage-looking Tagals armed with guns and bolos.
From The Campaign of the Jungle or, Under Lawton through Luzon by Edward Stratemeyer
"I'd rather be boloed than tell you," he said.
From The Tracer of Lost Persons by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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
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