Bolo

Bolo may refer to:

• Bolo bat, a child's toy
• Bolo knife, a Filipino knife similar to the machete
• Bolo punch, 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.
• Bolo, a slang term for Bolsheviks 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, a World War II airfield on Okinawa
• Operation Bolo, a United States military operation during the Vietnam War
• Bolo Shell, a type of specialty shotgun shell
• Bolo, a variant of the Mauser C96 semi-automatic pistol

Space

• A bolo is a type of spinning space tether

Places:

• Bolo, Central African Republic
• Bolo, Ethiopia, a village in Ethiopia
• Bolo, Tibet, a township in Tibet
• Bolo Township, Washington County, Illinois
• Bolo River, Romania
• O Bolo, Galicia, Spain
• Ogu/Bolo, a Local Government Area of Nigeria

People:

• Bolo Yeung, Chinese actor and martial artist
• Bolo (footballer), a Spanish footballer
• Bolo (prince), Manchu prince of the Qing Dynasty
• Bolo, nickname for Roberto Luongo, a National Hockey League goalie
• Bolo, nickname for Lashmer Whistler, 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), 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, a throwing rope with weights at both ends to entangle prey