Solo
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Solo (Italian for alone) is a descriptive term applied to any activity done alone. Examples include flying, driving, singing, playing a musical instrument, or anything normally or previously done as part of a group or team. For example, the members of The Beatles have subsequently had "solo careers" in various fields.
In addition, solo has other meanings:
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Music
- Solo (music), part of a piece of music played predominantly by one performer, often with other performers providing less prominent "backing." Solo types include:
- Solo (album), an album by Hugh Cornwell.
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Fiction
- Solo (1996 movie), a 1996 science-fiction film.
- Han Solo, a character from the Star Wars films.
- Solo family, relatives of Han in the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
- Napoleon Solo, a character from the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
- Solo One, an Australian television series.
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Places
- Coco Solo, a U.S. Navy submarine base in the Panama Canal Zone.
- Solo (known formally as Surakarta), a city in Indonesia.
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Products
- Solo (debit card), a brand of debit card in the U.K.
- Solo (soft drink), the name of two unrelated Norwegian and Australian soft drinks.
- Panther Solo, a British sports car.
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Recreation
- Solo climbing, or soloing, a style of climbing in which the climber climbs alone, without somebody belaying him.
- Solo whist, also called solo, a trick-taking card game based on whist.
- Dance Dance Revolution Solo, or DDR Solo, a music video game series.
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Other
- Solo exhibition, a display in a gallery, museum or other venue of the works of only one visual artist.
- Solo, the nickname of British hacker Gary McKinnon.
- EC-130 Commando Solo, a U.S. special-purpose aircraft used for broadcasting.
- Going Solo, a nonfiction book by Roald Dahl.
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