Bolo vs Boto - What's the difference?
bolo | boto |
A long, heavy, single-edged machete ().
A string or leather necktie secured with an ornamental slide ().
A request for law enforcement officers to B'e '''O'''n the ' Lo okout for a suspect.
Designating a type of punch; an uppercut.
*1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, p. 141:
*:He jerked me off balance and the hand with the brass knucks came around in a looping bolo punch.
To attack or despatch with a bolo knife.
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*:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
, a species of freshwater dolphin endemic to the Amazon river system
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 1, author=Henry Fountain, title=Carrying a Torch, or at Least Sprigs of Grass, work=New York Times
, passage=But in a group where one boto puts on a display, there was much more tail-whacking, biting and other aggressive behavior among the males. }}
As an acronym bolo
is an all-points bulletin (apb) with information to pick up an individual.As a verb boto is
to be injured, wounded.bolo
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(en noun)See also
* golok (Indonesian) * machete * parang * tabak (Filipino)Verb
(en verb)Anagrams
* ----boto
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