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Bool vs Bolo - What's the difference?

bool | bolo |

As a noun bool

is (computing|programming) a boolean variable, one whose value is either true or false.

As an acronym bolo is

an all-points bulletin (apb) with information to pick up an individual.

bool

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (computing, programming) A Boolean variable, one whose value is either true or false.
  • * 2000 , Mark A DeLoura, Game programming gems
    • The base class BitArray acts just like a normal C++ array of bools , although you are of course free to interpret the bits as integers...
  • * 2000 , Herb Sutter, Exceptional C++
    • With an automatic conversion, bools will interfere with overload resolution...
  • * 2007 , Joseph C Rattz, Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008
    • Listing 7-11 shows an example where the initial data type is string, but I will obtain its value as a bool .

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    bolo

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    • See also

    * golok (Indonesian) * machete * parang * tabak (Filipino)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.

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