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An exclamation used to startle or frighten. quotations examples
We may fairely cry bo-bo-boe; it may well make us hoarse, but it will nothing advaunce it.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 37, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]
plural bos
(US, slang) Fellow, chap, boy. quotations
‘Never heard of him,’ he smiled. ‘On your way, bo.’
1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 255
(martial arts) A quarterstaff, especially in an oriental context. examples