polo

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a game similar to field hockey but played on horseback using long-handled mallets and a wooden ball

   I play polo with all my friends from the country club.

2. 2
   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.

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   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.

5. 5
   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.

6. 6
   noun

   A dress shirt.

7. 7
   intj

   Alternative letter-case form of Polo.

8. 8
   intj

   Shouted by a player of the game Marco Polo. Compare Marco.

Etymology

From Italian Polo and Spanish Polo.