Bo \Bo\, interj. [Cf. W. bw, an interj. of threatening or frightening; n., terror, fear, dread.] An exclamation used to startle or frighten. [Spelt also {boh} and {boo}.]
In his early teens, he played on Chicago's Maxwell Street and acquired his stage name, a moniker derived from a "bo diddley" _ a one-stringed guitar.
Despite strident Marxist calls to greater efforts at national reconstruction, the old Laos of temple bells and the "bo pen yang" ("never mind, take it easy") lifestyle appears in some degree to have survived.