# Bolo

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**Bolo** may refer to:

## Arts, entertainment, and media

### Fictional entities

- Bolo, in the [*Bolo* universe](/source/Bolo_universe), the name of sentient supertanks
- An [enemy in the *Dick Tracy* series](/source/List_of_Dick_Tracy_characters#Enemies)
- Bolo, a character in the *[Shantae](/source/Shantae)* series
- Prince Bolo, a character in *[Haroun and the Sea of Stories](/source/Haroun_and_the_Sea_of_Stories)*
- Bolo, a fictional community in the novel *[bolo'bolo](/source/Bolo'bolo)*, a 1983 book by Hans Widmer

### Video games

- [*Bolo* (1982 video game)](/source/Bolo_(1982_video_game)), an Apple II tank game
- [*Bolo* (1987 video game)](/source/Bolo_(1987_video_game)), a simulation of a tank battle
- [*Bolo* (*Breakout* clone)](/source/Bolo_(Breakout_clone)), an enhanced clone of the *Breakout* computer game for the Atari ST

### Films

- [*Bolo* (film)](/source/Bolo_(film)), a 1979 Hong Kong film

## Military and weapons

- [Bolo Airfield](/source/Bolo_Airfield), a World War II airfield on Okinawa
- [Bolo knife](/source/Bolo_knife), a Filipino knife similar to the machete
- [Bolo Shell](/source/Bolo_Shell), a type of specialty shotgun shell
- [Douglas B-18 Bolo](/source/Douglas_B-18_Bolo), a United States Army Air Corps bomber aircraft from the 1930s
- [Operation Bolo](/source/Operation_Bolo), a United States military operation during the Vietnam War
- Bolo, a variant of the [Mauser C96](/source/Mauser_C96) semi-automatic pistol

## People

- [Bolo (footballer)](/source/Bolo_(footballer)) (born 1974), Spanish footballer
- [Bolo (prince)](/source/Bolo_(prince)) (1613–1652), Manchu prince of the Qing Dynasty
- [Bolo Pasha](/source/Bolo_Pasha) (born Paul Bolo, 1867–1918), French adventurer and German agent of the First World War
- [Lashmer Whistler](/source/Lashmer_Whistler) (1898–1963), British general of the Second World War nicknamed "Bolo" and "Private Bolo"
- [Bolo Yeung](/source/Bolo_Yeung) (born 1946), Chinese actor and martial artist

## Places

- [Bolo, Ethiopia](/source/Bolo,_Ethiopia), a village in Ethiopia
- [Bolo River](/source/Bolo_River), a river in Romania
- [Bolo, Tibet](/source/Bolo,_Tibet), a township in Tibet
- [Bolo Township, Washington County, Illinois](/source/Bolo_Township,_Washington_County,_Illinois), US
- [Ogu/Bolo](/source/Ogu/Bolo), a Local Government Area of Nigeria
- BOLO, [Bos & Lommer](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bos_en_Lommer), a neighbourhood of Amsterdam in the Netherlands

## Other uses

- BOLO, or "be on (the) lookout", an [all-points bulletin](/source/All-points_bulletin) in law enforcement
- [Bolo (bread)](/source/Bolo_(bread)), commonly prepared by Tunisian, Libyan, and Italian Jews
- [Bolo (tether)](/source/Bolo_(tether)), a type of spinning space tether
- [Bolo bat](/source/Bolo_bat), a child's toy
- [Bolo punch](/source/Bolo_punch), a wide sweeping lower cut used in martial arts
- [Bolo snake](/source/Bolo_snake) or Fiji snake (*Ogmodon vitianus*), an extremely rare snake found only in Fiji
- [Bolo tie](/source/Bolo_tie), a decorative string tie
- Bolo, a derogatory term for [Bolshevik](/source/Bolsheviks#Derogatory_usage_of_"Bolshevik")
- Bolo, a cake in [Portuguese cuisine](/source/Portuguese_cuisine)
- [Bolo language](/source/Bolo_language), a Bantu language of Angola

## See also

- [Bola (disambiguation)](/source/Bola_(disambiguation))
- [Bolas](/source/Bolas), a throwing rope with weights at both ends to entangle prey
- [Bollo (disambiguation)](/source/Bollo_(disambiguation))
- [O Bolo](/source/O_Bolo), a municipality in Galicia, Spain

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