polo

CEFRB2

/ˈpoʊloʊ/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A sport played on horseback with a long-handled stick.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A polo shirt.

Examples

  • I would kill for a plate of polo right now.

  • The water polo team practices at 5:30 a.m.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2

Also pronounced

  • [ˈpɒʊɫəʊ]
  • /ˈpəʊ.ləʊ/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

More examples

In context

  • 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.

  • 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.

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

Players hit a small white ball with mallets while riding horses in the game of blank.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

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