auto polo
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Noun
- (historical) A motorsport resembling equestrian polo but using automobiles instead of horses.
- 1935, Northwest Dentistry, page XXVI:
- We understand that he tried a little "autopolo" with the result that the car was only slightly damaged.
- 2015, Necia P. Seamons, Preston, page 40:
- 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, Patrick Garbin, The Georgia Bulldogs Playbook:
- 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."
- 2017, Adrian Zink, Hidden History of Kansas, page 177:
- In 1917, R. A. Hankinson of DeSoto, Kansas, patented the roll bar for use in auto polo contests.
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