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Definition of polo - 6 dictionary results

po⋅lo

[poh-loh]
–noun
1. a game played on horseback between two teams, each of four players, the object being to score points by driving a wooden ball into the opponents' goal using a long-handled mallet.
2. any game broadly resembling this, esp. water polo.
3. polo shirt.

Origin:
1835–45; < Balti (Tibetan language of Kashmir): ball


po⋅lo⋅ist, noun

Po⋅lo

[poh-loh]
–noun
Mar⋅co [mahr-koh] , c1254–1324, Venetian traveler.

polo shirt

–noun
a short-sleeved, pullover sport shirt, usually of cotton or cottonlike knit, with a round neckband or a turnover collar.
Also called polo.


Origin:
1915–20
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po·lo   (pō'lō)   
n.  
  1. A game played by two teams of three or four players on horseback who are equipped with long-handled mallets for driving a small wooden ball through the opponents' goal.

  2. Water polo.


[Balti (Tibeto-Burman language of Pakistan), ball.]
po'lo·ist n.
Po·lo   (pō'lō)   
Venetian traveler who explored Asia from 1271 to 1295. His Travels of Marco Polo was the only account of the Far East available to Europeans until the 17th century.
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Word Origin & History

polo 
1872, Anglo-Indian polo, from Balti (Tibetan language of the Indus valley) polo "ball," related to Tibetan pulu "ball." An ancient game in south Asia, first played in England at Aldershot, 1871. Water polo is from 1884. Polo shirt (1920) originally was a kind worn by polo players.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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