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combo

/ˈkɒmbəʊ/

combo noun: a small musical group.

Noun

combo (plural combos or comboes)

  1. A small musical group.
    • The jazz combo played nightly at the little restaurant.
  2. (slang) A combination.
    • I need to open the safe but I forgot the combo.
    • I order the low priced combo platter: a taco, a burrito and a chimichanga.
  3. An action composed of a sequence of simpler actions, especially a composite attacking move in a fighting game.
    • Obviously, this is something not seen very often, with super flashy, combo-driven fighters dominating store shelves everywhere.2002, Andy Slaven, Video Game Bible, 1985-2002
  4. Two or more gameplay elements (e.g. characters, items) which are powerful when used together.
    • Tm have several OP combos, i think ecology expert with kelp algea^([sic]) is stronger than fish combo IMO.2019, RyuSora, “OP Combo”, in Board Game Geek
  5. (especially collectible card games) A strategy aiming to win by playing a specific combination of cards (or similar), often in a single turn.
    • Personally I'd like to see an environment where all the major archetypes, control, beatdown, and combo are viable.1999, Steven Merritt, “[ISSUE] An alternative to Banning, increase minimum deck size”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet)
    • Whenever I play (I play D&D alot^([sic]) too) I always play combo.1999, michele oasheim, “The Funnest Combo Decks”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet)
  6. (rhythm games) An unbroken streak of correctly played notes.
  7. (Australia, derogatory) A Caucasian man who marries or has a sexual relationship with an Aboriginal woman, or who lives among Aboriginal people and adopts Aboriginal culture.
    • "[…] Look at Ganger O'Cannon of Black Adder Creek, with his halfcaste wife and quadroon kids, a down-right family man—yet looked on as as much a combo as if he lived in a blacks' camp. Isn't that so? […] The casual comboes are respected, while men like O'Cannon and myself, who rear their kids, are...1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia, pages 107–8
    • If he sides with the Aborigines against their employers and exploiters, he may be called a ' combo ', and yet he may not achieve popularity with the Aborigines.1993, Journal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, p. 97, https://books.google.ca/books?id=Ky4iAQAAMAAJ&q=%22a+combo%22+halfcaste+-%22combo+box%22&dq=%22a+combo%22+halfcaste+-%22combo+bo...
  8. (informal) A combo box.
    • Combos and lists are two very powerful controls that allow the user to select from a predetermined set of values.2000, Marcia Akins, Andy Kramek, Rick Schummer, 1001 Things You Wanted to Know about Visual FoxPro, page 127

Verb

combo (third-person singular simple present combos, present participle comboing, simple past and past participle comboed)

  1. (slang, transitive) To combine.
  2. (transitive) To perform a combo attack on.

Proper noun capitalized: Combo

Combo

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Kombo.
  2. A locality in the Singleton council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.

combo meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

combo in Hindi

कॉम्बो

combo in Tamil

காம்போ

combo in Marathi

कॉम्बो, कोम्बो

combo in Urdu

کومبو
More languagesFewer languages
combo in Bengali
কম্বো
combo in Telugu
కాంబో
combo in Malayalam
കോമ്പോ
combo in Kannada
ಕಾಂಬೋ
combo in Punjabi
ਕੰਬੋ
combo in Gujarati
કોમ્બો
combo in Odia
କମ୍ବୋ
combo in Nepali
कम्बो, कोम्बो
combo in Indonesian
kombo

Examples of combo in a sentence

  • The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
  • "[…] Look at Ganger O'Cannon of Black Adder Creek, with his halfcaste wife and quadroon kids, a down-right family man—yet looked on as as much a combo as if he lived in a blacks' camp.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia, pages 107–8:
  • Many passages in Harney's books are written from the point of view of what he refers to as the ' combo '; a white man who has sexual relations with Aboriginal women.1996, Jeremy MacClancy, Chris McDonaugh, editors, Popularizing Anthropology, London and New York: Routledge, page 167:

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Forms of combo

Noun
pluralcombos
pluralcomboes
Verb
third-person singular presentcombos
present participlecomboing
past participlecomboed
pastcomboed

Plural of combo: combos or comboes

Origin of combo

Clipping of combination + -o.

Words formed from combo

Phrases with combo

Questions about combo

What does combo mean?
Combo means a small musical group.
What is combo in Hindi?
Combo in Hindi is कॉम्बो. See Combo meaning in Hindi.
How do you use combo in a sentence?
The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.
What part of speech is combo?
Combo can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce combo?
Combo is pronounced /ˈkɒmbəʊ/.
What is the plural of combo?
The plural of combo is combos.

Words near combo in the dictionary

  1. comblessness
  2. comblike
  3. combmaker
  4. combmakers
  5. combmaking
  6. combo
  7. combo box
  8. combo boxes
  9. combo breaker
  10. combo breakers
  11. combo skin

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: combo (page history and authors); Combo (page history and authors); combo (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); combo (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); combo (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); combo (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); combo (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); combo (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); combo (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); combo (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); combo (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); combo (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); combo (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); combo (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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