auto polo

noun

A motorsport resembling equestrian polo but using automobiles instead of horses.

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Meanings

nounauto polo (uncountable)
  1. historicaluncountableA motorsport resembling equestrian polo but using automobiles instead of horses.

    In 1917, R. A. Hankinson of DeSoto, Kansas, patented the roll bar for use in auto polo contests.

    2017, Adrian Zink, Hidden History of Kansas, page 177
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    We understand that he tried a little "autopolo" with the result that the car was only slightly damaged.

    1935, Northwest Dentistry, page XXVI

    Each auto polo team (as pictured above) had one driver and a mallet swinger. They chased a soccer-sized ball. As teams became more competitive, they eliminated seats, doors, floorboards, fenders, and brakes.

    2015, Necia P. Seamons, Preston, page 40

    The eighth annual Georgia-Carolina State Fair was 11 days of corn, kennel, livestock, and poultry shows, automobile and motorcycle races, and an "auto-polo game: one of the most thrilling events ever witnessed on earth."

    2015, Patrick Garbin, The Georgia Bulldogs Playbook
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Chicago

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