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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

Mr. Young’s family also endorsed her and filmed an ad for her, bestowing her with one of his signature bolo ties.

From New York Times Nov. 23, 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

There were a few shrieks, and bolos whizzed.

From Time Magazine Archive

"He has different ideas, and he can't be pressured by the bolos."

From The Five Arrows by Chase, Allan

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

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

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

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




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