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Word entry · 4 letters

polo

Best crossword clue

"Horseback ball game"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ˈpoʊloʊ/Part of speech nounSorted loopStarts with PEnds with O1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Ball game played on horseback with mallets.

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • 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.

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