polo
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Definition of polo
8 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(uncountable, usually)A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.
“There were polo fields – sometimes green, sometimes brown – where in the old days, people had actually played that strange game that seems like a drunken bet about golf and horse riding.”
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noun
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(uncountable, usually)A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.
“There were polo fields – sometimes green, sometimes brown – where in the old days, people had actually played that strange game that seems like a drunken bet about golf and horse riding.”
- (uncountable, usually)The game of ice polo, one of the ancestors of ice hockey; a similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.
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(countable, usually)A polo shirt.
“Then on the second floor there is the creepy boy’s section, which had little headless mannequins in premium polos ($39.50), rugby shirts ($49.50) and a precocious leather pilot jacket for $148.”
- A Spanish gypsy dance characterized by energetic movements of the body while the feet merely shuffle or glide, with unison singing and rhythmic clapping of hands.
- (Philippines)A dress shirt.
intj
- (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of Polo.
- Shouted by a player of the game Marco Polo. Compare Marco.
name
- A surname from Italian or Spanish
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Balti پولو (polo, “ball”). Cognate with Tibetan པོ་ལོ (po lo), ཕོ་ལོང (pho long), སྤོ་ལོ (spo lo, “ball”).
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