Bo
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Bo or BO may be:
The whole word Bo:
- the evil aspect of Voodoo practice
- Bo (parsha), the fifteenth weekly parshah or portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading
- Bo (weapon), an east Asian quarterstaff
- Bo, a Viet-Muong language spoken in Laos.
- Bo people, an extinct minority population in Southern China famous for hanging coffins
- Bo Selecta, a British comedy
- Bo, Sierra Leone, a city
- Bo tree, the sacred fig under which Siddhartha Gautama was enlightened
People named Bo:
- Gudmundur S. (Bo) Bodvarsson, an Icelandic scientist who was the director of the Earth Sciences Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 2001 to 2006
- Bo Bice, an American singer who took second place on the fourth season of American Idol
- Bo Derek, an American model-turned-actress from the 1970's and 1980's; best known for her performance in the film Ten
- Bo Taylor, an African American model-turned-actor from the 1970's and 1980's; best known as Dr. Mark Evans in the soap opera As The World Turns
- Bo Diddley, an American singer/guitarist
- Bo Duke, one of the main characters from The Dukes of Hazzard television series
- Bo Jackson, an American former NFL and MLB All-Star, and the subject of the Bo Knows advertising campaign
- Bo Outlaw, an American basketball player
- Bo Schembechler (1929-2006), University of Michigan Wolverines football coach, (1969-1989)
- Lina Bo Bardi, an Italian-Brazilian architect
- Little Bo Peep
- Tokuhiko Uwabo, video game music composer, often credited as Bo
- Bo' Rai Cho, a character from Mortal Kombat
Terms abbreviated to BO:
- UIC classification for the railroad locomotive wheel arrangement 0-4-0 in the Whyte notation, consisting of two independently powered axles and hence four wheels
- BO, in mathematics, the classifying space of the orthogonal group
- Belarus (BO), FIPS Pub 10-4 and obsolete NATO digram country code
- Bolivia (BO), WMO and ISO 2-letter country code
- Biarritz Olympique (BO), French rugby union club
- Bouraq Indonesia Airlines (BO) IATA airline code
- Back Orifice, a remote administration tool
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (AAR reporting marks BO)
- Bang & Olufsen, a high-end audio company.
- Business Objects (company)
- "Best Offer", an abbreviation used to mean that the price is negotiable
- Box office
- Body odor
- Breath odor
- Bacterial overgrowth, a medical disorder of malabsorption
- Bounded Optimality, a term in AI
- Bø, Telemark and Bø, Nordland, two municipalities in Norway.
- Le Bô in the Calvados département of France