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BOLO is a police/FBI term for Be On the LOokout
by 1cvmask 5y ago
BOLO is a police/FBI term for Be On the LOokout
- tchalla 5y agoThank you for posting the full form of the acronym. It helps keep the conversation structured. I wish more people would do it.
- dylan604 5y agoI have this same feeling towards a lot of tech blogs/articles/etc. The people writing use an acronym daily, yet people not in that field have much less familiarity with the same grouping of letters. Journalism/authors has (had?) a rule about clearly defining the acronym the first time it was used, and then just use the acronym for the remainder. Now, that definition seems left out altogether. It could be a sign of lack of formal training in writing, but I know I was taught it in high school level grammar class. <shrugs>
- matheusmoreira 5y agoThe web provides a solution to this problem. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/abbr https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ab...
- OJFord 5y ago> LOokout Not that it really matters/makes a difference, but presumably it's 'LookOut' - at least, that seems less weird/forced into a specific desired acronym. As a noun 'lookout' (or 'look-out') is from verb phrase 'look out' anyway.
- chias 5y agoLoOkout