polo

noun6

1. •
   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. — 2019
2. •
   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. — 2007
3. •
   (Philippines) A dress shirt.
4. •
   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. •
   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. •
   Synonym of pilaf.

verb2

1. •
   To play the game of polo.
2. •
   To give the cry of "polo!" in the marco polo game.

exclamation1

1. •
   Shouted by a player of the game Marco Polo. Compare Marco.