bolo
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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
“Oh, my gosh, this means the world to me,” Peltola told The Associated Press about receiving Young’s signature bolo tie.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
The off-brown suit and bolo tie are dead giveaways.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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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
The General went at once himself where the germs were thickest, the bolos sharpest.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Tulisanes formerly infested these provinces and found a ready refuge in the mountains, when pursued by the cuadrilleros, or village constables, who were only armed with bolos, lances, and a few old muskets.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer
"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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