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Bolo

Bolo may be:

Bolo knife, a Filipino machete used for agricultural purposes and as a weapon.
Bolo punch, a wide sweeping uppercut used in boxing.
Bolo tie, decorative string with an ornament clasp worn around the neck, worn in the American West, also known as a bola tie
a community or tribe in bolo'bolo (1983), by Swiss author P.M..
Bolo, a slang term for Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War.

In military:

Bolo Shell, a type of specialty shotgun shell
Bolo (tank), a type of enhanced artificially intelligent tank appearing in the science fiction of Keith Laumer. The word was vaguely taken from the US Army use.
B-18 Bolo, a United States Army Air Corps bomber aircraft from the 1930s

In places:

Bolo, Central African Republic
Bolo, Ethiopia, a village in Ethiopia
Bolo, Tibet, a township in Tibet
O Bolo, Galicia, Spain
Viana do Bolo, Galicia, Spain

In people:

Bolo Yeung, Chinese actor and martial artist
Bolo, a Spanish footballer
Bolo, nickname for Roberto Luongo - a goaltender for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League

In gaming:

Bolo (computer game), a computer game in which players battle each other with tanks.
Bolo (breakout clone), an enhanced clone of the classic Breakout computer game for the Atari ST

Acronyms:

BOLO, an acronym used by law enforcement for "Be On The Lookout".

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All points bulletin

An All Points Bulletin (APB) is a broadcast issued from one law enforcement agency to another. It typically contains information about a wanted suspect who is to be arrested or a person of interest, whom law enforcement officers are to look for. They are usually dangerous or missing persons. As used by police, the term dates to at least 1960. An all-points bulletin can also be known as a BOLO, which stands for "be on the lookout". It is sometimes called a "lookout", ATL (Attempt To Locate), or "BOL" for short.

The United Kingdom uses a similar system known as the All Ports Warning, which circulates a suspect's description to airports, ports and international railway stations to detect an offender leaving the country. However, because of the great numbers of commuters at such places, UK Police forces often prefer to contact specific airports, ports or stations and circulate descriptions individually.

Side note

The term has been recently used in the editorial In at the Birth of Death of the New York Times to refer to the spreading of the coordinates by Princeton University astronomer Alicia Soderberg of the explosion of the supernova SN 2008D. Soderberg was in a position to detect the early x-Ray emissions of the supernova with special instruments: recipients of her notice could turn their visible-light telescopes to the specified direction and see an unusually impressive show.

Use in Media

The term All Points Bulletin is also often used in the television series NCIS, where it is most commonly referred to as a BOLO. The term BOLO has also been used in the television series The West Wing.