Bolo

Bolo may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional entities

• Bolo, in the Bolo universe, the name of sentient supertanks
• An enemy in the Dick Tracy series
• Bolo, a character in the Shantae series
• Prince Bolo, a character in Haroun and the Sea of Stories
• Bolo, a fictional community in the novel bolo'bolo, a 1983 book by Hans Widmer

Video games

• Bolo (1982 video game), an Apple II tank game
• Bolo (1987 video game), a simulation of a tank battle
• Bolo (Breakout clone), an enhanced clone of the Breakout computer game for the Atari ST

Films

• Bolo (film), a 1979 Hong Kong film

Military

• Bolo Airfield, a World War II airfield on Okinawa
• 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

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, Ethiopia, a village in Ethiopia
• Bolo River, a river in Romania
• Bolo, Tibet, a township
• Bolo Township, Washington County, Illinois, US
• Ogu/Bolo, a Local Government Area of Nigeria
• BOLO, Bos & Lommer, a neighbourhood of Amsterdam in the Netherlands

Weapons

• Bolo knife, a Filipino knife similar to the machete
• Bolo Shell, a type of specialty shotgun shell
• Bolo, a variant of the Mauser C96 semi-automatic pistol

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

• Bola (disambiguation)
• Bolas, a throwing rope with weights at both ends to entangle prey
• Bollo (disambiguation)
• O Bolo, a municipality in Galicia, Spain
• All pages with titles beginning with Bolo
• All pages with titles containing Bolo