polo

Etymology 1

From Balti پولو (pulu, “ball”). Cognate with Tibetan པོ་ལོ (po lo), ཕོ་ལོང (pho long), སྤོ་ལོ (spo lo, “ball”).

noun

1. (uncountable) 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.
   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. 2019, Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift, Hogarth, page 227
2. 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.
3. (countable) A polo shirt.
   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. February 22 2007, Mike Albo, “Outfitters to Presidents, Preppies, Me”, in New York Times

Etymology 2

Spanish, an air or popular song in Andalusia.

noun

1. 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.

Etymology 3

Unknown.

noun

1. (Philippines) A dress shirt.

Etymology 4

From the game marco polo, from the explorer Marco Polo, from Latin Paulus

intj

1. Alternative letter-case form of Polo