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lobo

nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈləʊbəʊ//

A wolf.

noun

  1. 1

    A wolf.

    We used to pay a $20.00 bounty a head on lobos for a good many years, but stopped it because it was abused. Lobo scalps from Arizona, [...]

    "That may be so," Donnelly allowed, "but there desperate men around these parts, especially wolfers who have been collecting bounties for lobo scalps since the big snows of the Hard Winter."

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish lobo (“wolf”). Doublet of lupus and wolf.

Forms

plural
lobos
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).