polo B2 Topic:Sports & Fitness US /ˈpoʊloʊ/ UK /ˈpəʊ.ləʊ/ See IPA manual Freq #9194 Meanings 1 noun A ball game played on horseback in which two teams use long mallets to hit a ball into the other team's goal. I play polo with my friends from the country club. 2 noun A casual shirt with a collar and a few buttons at the neck; a polo shirt. He wore a plain blue polo and jeans. Thesaurus Word family Derived forms polo-neckpolo-stickpolocrossepoloist Common collocations polo pony Noun + noun Etymology From Italian Polo and Spanish Polo. Polo Spanish View etymology graph -> Topics Sports & Fitness External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # polo **Type:** Word **Level:** B2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈpoʊloʊ/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈpəʊ.ləʊ/ **Frequency rank:** 9194 ## Meanings 1. A ball game played on horseback in which two teams use long mallets to hit a ball into the other team's goal. 2. A casual shirt with a collar and a few buttons at the neck; a polo shirt. ## Examples - I play polo with my friends from the country club. - He wore a plain blue polo and jeans. ## Derived Forms - polo-neck - polo-stick - polocrosse - poloist ## Roots and Affixes - Root: Polo ## Etymology From Italian Polo and Spanish Polo. ## Topics - Sports & Fitness markdown