boloing

Verb (1)

bolo (third-person singular simple present bolos, present participle boloing, simple past and past participle boloed)

1. (transitive) To cleave or dismember (a person or an animal) with a bolo knife.
   • "In the first place," began Drina, "you are to lie down flat on the floor and creep about and show us how the Moros wriggle through the grass to bolo our sentinels." […] Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked...1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, pages 13–14

Verb (2)

bolo (third-person singular simple present bolos, present participle boloing, simple past and past participle boloed)

1. To fail to meet the minimum standards of marksmanship.

Verb (3)

bolo (third-person singular simple present bolos, present participle boloing, simple past and past participle boloed)

1. (nonce-word, transitive) To dress (somebody) in a bolo.
   • Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC

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