[poh-loh] 
| 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. |
[poh-loh] | Mar⋅co [mahr-koh] , c1254–1324, Venetian traveler. |
| a short-sleeved, pullover sport shirt, usually of cotton or cottonlike knit, with a round neckband or a turnover collar. |
| po·lo (pō'lō) n.
[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. |