bolo

/ˈbolo/ · B1 · adj

drunk

🎳🍺 Sounds like bowl-o: a bolo is a bowling pin, and a drunk wobbles like one

Bolo comes from bola (ball), so its core sense is a bowling pin, and jugar a los bolos means to go bowling. In Mexico, estar bolo means to be drunk: someone tipsy sways like a pin that is about to fall.

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