Bolo Explained
Bolo may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
Video games
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
- Bolo, Central African Republic
- Bolo, Ethiopia, a village in Ethiopia
- Bolo River, a river in Romania
- Bolo, Tibet, a township in Tibet
- Bolo Township, Washington County, Illinois, US
- Ogu/Bolo, a Local Government Area of Nigeria
- BOLO, Bos & Lommer, a neighbourhood of Amsterdam in the Netherlands
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