Definition of "polo" []

• A game played by two teams of three or four players on horseback who are equipped with long-handled mallets for driving a small wooden ball through the opponents' goal. (noun)
• Water polo. (noun)

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• "In the 1930s the polo world adopted the shirt and within 20 years the term 'polo shirt' began to come to the fore."
• "He wore coaching shorts, his three-button Ro-Hawks our nickname polo shirt, and a Ro-Hawks hat, and he always had a whistle around his neck."
• "Ok, you could get yourself a nice hawaiian shirt, or a dull polo from the high street."