Bolo

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Bolo may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

  • Bolo, in the Bolo universe, the name of sentient supertanks
  • An enemy in the Dick Tracy series
  • Bolo, a character in the Shantae series
  • Prince Bolo, a character in Haroun and the Sea of Stories
  • Bolo, a fictional community in the novel bolo'bolo, a 1983 book by Hans Widmer

Video games

  • Bolo (1982 video game), an Apple II tank game
  • Bolo (1987 video game), a simulation of a tank battle
  • Bolo (Breakout clone), an enhanced clone of the Breakout computer game for the Atari ST

Military and weapons

  • Bolo Airfield, a World War II airfield on Okinawa
  • Bolo knife, a Filipino knife similar to the machete
  • Bolo Shell, a type of specialty shotgun shell
  • Douglas B-18 Bolo, a United States Army Air Corps bomber aircraft from the 1930s
  • Operation Bolo, a United States military operation during the Vietnam War
  • Bolo, a variant of the Mauser C96 semi-automatic pistol

People

  • Bolo (footballer) (born 1974), Spanish footballer
  • Bolo (prince) (1613–1652), Manchu prince of the Qing Dynasty
  • Bolo Pasha (born Paul Bolo, 1867–1918), French adventurer and German agent of the First World War
  • Lashmer Whistler (1898–1963), British general of the Second World War nicknamed "Bolo" and "Private Bolo"
  • Bolo Yeung (born 1946), Chinese actor and martial artist

Places

Other uses

  • BOLO, or "be on (the) lookout", an all-points bulletin in law enforcement
  • Bolo (bread), commonly prepared by Tunisian, Libyan, and Italian Jews
  • Bolo (tether), a type of spinning space tether
  • Bolo bat, a child's toy
  • Bolo punch, a wide sweeping lower cut used in martial arts
  • Bolo snake or Fiji snake (Ogmodon vitianus), an extremely rare snake found only in Fiji
  • Bolo tie, a decorative string tie
  • Bolo, a derogatory term for Bolshevik
  • Bolo, a cake in Portuguese cuisine
  • Bolo language, a Bantu language of Angola

See also

  • Bola (disambiguation)
  • Bolas, a throwing rope with weights at both ends to entangle prey
  • Bollo (disambiguation)
  • O Bolo, a municipality in Galicia, Spain
  • All pages with titles beginning with Bolo
  • All pages with titles containing Bolo
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