Bolo
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Bolo may refer to:
  • Bolo bat
    Bolo bat
    The Bolo bat was a child's toy popular in the 1930s through the 1960s. It consisted of a round wooden paddle-like bat with a handle, not unlike a ping-pong paddle, attached to the center of which was a piece of elastic band about three feet long...

    , a child's toy
  • Bolo knife
    Bolo knife
    A bolo is a large cutting tool of Filipino origin similar to the machete, used particularly in the jungles of Indonesia, the Philippines, and in the sugar fields of Cuba...

    , a Filipino knife similar to the machete
  • Bolo punch
    Bolo punch
    A bolo punch is a punch used in Martial arts. The bolo punch is among the traditional boxing punches . Used many times and can cause powerful knockouts....

    , a wide sweeping lower cut used in boxing
  • Bolo tie, decorative string tie
  • A community or tribe in the 1983 book bolo'bolo by Swiss author P.M.
    P.M. (author)
    The pseudonym P.M. is used by an otherwise anonymous Swiss author , best known for his 1983 anarchist / anti-capitalist social utopian book bolo'bolo, published with the paranoia city verlag of Zürich.-bolo'bolo:The title of this book refers to the...

  • Bolo, a slang term for Bolshevik
    Bolshevik
    The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....

    s during the Russian Civil War
  • BOLO, an acronym used by law enforcement, standing for "Be on the lookout", often used as “bolo alert”; an all-points bulletin
  • Bolo snake, an extremely rare snake, found only in Fiji
  • Boloma Block
  • Bolo, a slang term for a Salvadorean drunk


In the military:
  • Douglas B-18 Bolo, a United States Army Air Corps bomber aircraft from the 1930s
  • Bolo Airfield
    Bolo Airfield
    Bolo Airfield is a former World War II airfield in Okinawa, at Bolo Point on the East China Sea coast. The airfield was inactivated after 1946 and returned to Japanese control in 1972. Today it has been redeveloped into a golf course and recreation area.-History:This airfield was originally...

    , a World War II airfield on Okinawa
  • Operation Bolo
    Operation Bolo
    Operation Bolo was a deception programme during the Vietnam War, to lure Không Quân Nhân Dân Việt Nam - Vietnam People's Air Force fighters into battle where the odds were stacked against the defenders; devised to reverse alarming loss rates among United States Air Force fighter bombers flying...

    , a United States military operation during the Vietnam War
  • Bolo Shell, a type of specialty shotgun shell
  • Bolo, a variant of the Mauser C96
    Mauser C96
    The Mauser C96 is a semi-automatic pistol that was originally produced by German arms manufacturer Mauser from 1896 to 1937...

     semi-automatic pistol


Space
  • A bolo is a type of spinning space tether
    Space tether
    Space tethers are cables, usually long and very strong, which can be used for propulsion, stabilization, or maintaining the formation of space systems by determining the trajectory of spacecraft and payloads...



Places:
  • Bolo, Central African Republic
    Bolo, Central African Republic
    Bolo is a village in the Bamingui-Bangoran Prefecture in the northern Central African Republic.-External links:**...

  • Bolo, Ethiopia
    Bolo, Ethiopia
    Bolo is a town in central Ethiopia. Located in the Arsi Zone of the Oromia Region, it has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of 1891 meters above sea level.-Overview:...

    , a village in Ethiopia
  • Bolo, Tibet
    Bolo, Tibet
    Bolo is a town in and the seat of Gonjo County, eastern Tibet Autonomous Region, Western China.-External links:Location on the world map...

    , a township in Tibet
  • Bolo Township, Washington County, Illinois
    Bolo Township, Washington County, Illinois
    Bolo Township is located in Washington County, Illinois. The population was 419 at the 2010 census.- External links :***...

  • Bolo River, Romania
  • O Bolo
    O Bolo
    O Bolo is a municipality in Ourense in the Galicia region of north-west Spain. It is located towards the north-east of the province.-External links:*, en español.*, en gallego....

    , Galicia, Spain
  • Ogu/Bolo
    Ogu/Bolo
    Ogu/Bolo is a Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Ogu.It has an area of 89 km² and a population of 74,683 at the 2006 census. This is an area belonging to the Ogu/Bolo people....

    , a Local Government Area of Nigeria


People:
  • Bolo Yeung
    Bolo Yeung
    Yang Sze , better known as Bolo Yeung, is a former competitive bodybuilder and a martial arts film actor. Primarily cast as the villain in the movies he stars in, he is best known for his performances as Bolo in Enter the Dragon and as Chong Li in Bloodsport, and also for his many appearances in...

    , Chinese actor and martial artist
  • Bolo (footballer)
    Bolo (footballer)
    Jon Andoni Pérez Alonso, aka Bolo , is a retired Spanish footballer who played as a centre forward....

    , a Spanish footballer
  • Bolo (prince)
    Bolo (prince)
    Bolo was a prince of the Qing Dynasty. He was born of the Manchu Aisin Gioro clan as the third son of Abatai, making him a grandson of the Qing Dynasty's founder Nurhaci...

    , Manchu prince of the Qing Dynasty
  • Bolo, nickname for Roberto Luongo
    Roberto Luongo
    Roberto Luongo is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League . Born in Montreal, Quebec, he is of Italian and Irish ancestry. He employs the butterfly style of goaltending...

    , a National Hockey League goalie
  • Bolo, nickname for Lashmer Whistler
    Lashmer Whistler
    General Sir Lashmer Gordon Whistler GCB, KBE, DSO & Two Bars, DL , known as Bolo, was a British army officer who served in the First and Second World Wars. In the Second World War he achieved senior ranks serving with Field Marshal Montgomery in North Africa and Europe...

    , British general of the Second World War


In entertainment:
  • Bolo (tank), a type of artificially intelligent tank in the science fiction of Keith Laumer
  • Bolo (video game), simulation of a tank battle
  • Bolo (breakout clone)
    Bolo (breakout clone)
    Bolo is a computer game for the Atari ST using the high resolution monochrome monitor. It is unrelated to the tank game of the same name, and is instead seen as a Breakout clone....

    , an enhanced clone of the Breakout computer game for the Atari ST


Other:
  • Bolo, a cake in Brazilian cuisine

See also

  • Bola (disambiguation)
  • Bollo (disambiguation)
  • Bolas
    Bolas
    Bolas are a throwing weapon superficially similar to the surujin, made of weights on the ends of interconnected cords, designed to capture animals by entangling their legs...

    , a throwing rope with weights at both ends to entangle prey
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