Meaning

8 senses
  1. A small musical group.

    The jazz combo played nightly at the little restaurant.

    Combo

    a small band of jazz musicians

  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. Effective combination of gameplay elements.

    An action composed of a sequence of simpler actions, especially a composite attacking move in a fighting game.

  4. Two or more gameplay elements (e.g. characters, items) which are powerful when used together.

  5. A strategy aiming to win by playing a specific combination of cards (or similar), often in a single turn.

  6. 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.

  8. (informal)A combo box.

Examples

8 sentences
  1. I used to play the trombone in a jazz combo.

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  2. Mary executed a perfectly-timed combo.

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  3. Cookies and milk are the perfect combo.

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  4. Benedito's spa has a sauna and steam room combo.

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  5. The spa offers a body wrap and massage combo.

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Translations

2 languages
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By meaning 1
small musical group:

Origin

Clipping of combination + -o.

Clipping of combination + -o.

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Forms

plural: combos / comboes
Singularcombo
Pluralcombos / comboes

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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