pato

[ pah-toh; Spanish pah-taw ]

noun

an Argentine game played by two teams of four on horseback, resembling a cross between polo and basketball, using a ball with six large leather handles, the object of which is to place or throw the ball through the opponent's net that hangs from a 9 feet (2.7 meters) high pole.

Origin of pato

From Latin American Spanish (Argentina); Spanish: “duck” (of obscure origin; perhaps originally a nursery word, akin to pata “leg, foot of an animal”); cf. paw¹); the game was allegedly first played with a duck in a skin or leather bag

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How to use pato in a sentence

The cheery Wilson, who sometimes goes by the nickname “pato,” was born in Nigeria.
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Bellini turned yellow, and sneaked away like our old dog pato at Casa Rigey when he had been stealing.
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The bud resembles a web-footed animal swimming, hence its name flor de pato, ducks flower.
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