Polo
intj, name, noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 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. uncountable, usually
"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."
- 2 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.
- 3 A dress shirt. Philippines
- 4 a game similar to field hockey but played on horseback using long-handled mallets and a wooden ball wordnet
- 5 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. uncountable, usually
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- 6 A polo shirt. countable, usually
"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."
- 1 Alternative letter-case form of Polo. alt-of
- 2 Shouted by a player of the game Marco Polo. Compare Marco.
- 1 A surname from Italian or Spanish
Example
More examples"Football originally meant "a game played with a ball on foot" - unlike a game played on horseback, such as polo."
Etymology
From Balti پولو (polo, “ball”). Cognate with Tibetan པོ་ལོ (po lo), ཕོ་ལོང (pho long), སྤོ་ལོ (spo lo, “ball”).
From Spanish, an air or popular song in Andalusia.
Unknown.
From the game marco polo, from the explorer Marco Polo, from Latin Paulus.
From Marco Polo, from Latin Marcus Paulus, from Paulus.
From Italian Polo and Spanish Polo.
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