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bolo

[boh-loh] / ˈboʊ loʊ /
NOUN
bolo tie
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NOUN
machete
Synonyms


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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

Often, stones and minerals collected by rockhounds are turned into pendants, bolo ties, rings, bookends and colorful spheres.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 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

Kyril Montana wore a neatly pressed pink shirt, a bolo tie, beige, tapered western pants, and cowboy boots, and he carried a pack of filtertip cigarettes in his shirt pocket over the heart.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

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

For fishing they make use of the harpoon, arrows, bolos, corrals, and nets.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 by Various

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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