polo

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/ˈpoʊloʊ/

noun 5intj 2name 1

Collocations

ADJ.

best, blue, english, green, imported, joined, light, own

He wore his best polo shirt to the country club meeting last weekend.

VERB + POLO

formed, handed, like, plays, said, wearing, welcomed, wore

He plays polo every weekend during the summer season.

POLO + NOUN

china, fields, kublai, neck, players, shirt, shirts, team

The polo players gathered on the fields early that morning to practice their techniques.

PREP.

with

Marco Polo traveled with merchant traders along the famous Silk Road to China.

ADV.

also, sometimes, such

He sometimes played polo with his wealthy friends on weekends.

Definitions

noun

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.

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.

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.

noun

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.

noun

A dress shirt.

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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.

Wiktionary

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.

Wiktionary

Football originally meant "a game played with a ball on foot" - unlike a game played on horseback, such as polo.

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The shirt she apparently seriously thought suited me I turned down and decided to accept a light blue polo shirt.

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I would kill for a plate of polo right now.

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As the Mongol Emperor who welcomed Marco Polo to China, Kublai Khan became a legend in Europe.

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