Bolo may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

* Bolo, in the ''Bolo'' universe, the name of sentient supertanks * An enemy in the ''Dick Tracy'' series * Bolo, a character in the ''

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'' 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

Military and weapons

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

Bolo knife A bolo (, , , , , , , , , ) is a general term for traditional History of the Philippines (900–1565), pre-colonial small- to medium-sized single-edged swords or large knives of the Philippines that function both as tools and weapons. Bolos are ...

, a Filipino knife similar to the machete * Bolo Shell, a type of specialty shotgun shell *

Douglas B-18 Bolo The Douglas B-18 Bolo is an American twin-engined medium bomber which served with the United States Army Air Corps and the Royal Canadian Air Force (as the Digby) during the late 1930s and early 1940s. The Bolo was developed by the Douglas Airc ...

, 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 The Mauser C96 (''Construktion 96'') is a semi-automatic pistol that was originally produced by German arms manufacturer Mauser from 1896 to 1937. Unlicensed copies of the gun were also manufactured in Spain and China in the first half of the 20 ...

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 General (United Kingdom), General Sir Lashmer Gordon Whistler, (3 September 1898 – 4 July 1963), known as "Bolo", was a British Army officer who served in both the world wars. A junior officer during the First World War, during the Second Wor ...

(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

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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 bolo punch is a punch used in martial arts. The bolo punch is not among the traditional boxing punches (jab, uppercut, Hook (boxing), hook and Cross (boxing), cross). ''Bolo knife, Bolo'' is a Filipino single-edged knife similar to the machete ...

, 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 bolo tie (sometimes bola tie or shoestring necktie) is a type of necktie consisting of a piece of cord or braided leather with decorative metal tips (called aiguillettes) and secured with an ornamental clasp or slide. Popularity In the United ...

, a decorative string tie * Bolo, a derogatory term for

Bolshevik The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, were a radical Faction (political), faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, ...

* Bolo, a cake in

Portuguese cuisine Portuguese cuisine () consists of the traditions and practices of cooking in Portugal. The oldest known book on Portuguese cuisine, entitled ''Livro de Cozinha da Infanta D. Maria de Portugal'', from the 16th century, describes many popular dish ...

* Bolo language, a Bantu language of Angola