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See also:combó

English

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EnglishWikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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    Clipping ofcombination +‎-o

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    combo (pluralcombosorcomboes)

    1. A small musicalgroup.
      The jazzcombo played nightly at the little restaurant.
    2. (slang) Acombination.
      I need to open the safe but I forgot thecombo.
      I order the low pricedcombo platter: a taco, a burrito and a chimichanga.
      • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, inRail, page68:
        As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220'combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on anXC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.
    3. (gaming)Effective combination of gameplay elements.
      1. (video games) An action composed of a sequence of simpler actions, especially a compositeattacking move in afighting game.
        • 2002, Andy Slaven,Video Game Bible, 1985-2002:
          Obviously, this is something not seen very often, with super flashy,combo-driven fighters dominating store shelves everywhere.
      2. Two or moregameplay elements (e.g.characters,items) which are powerful when used together.
        • 2019, RyuSora, “OP Combo”, inBoard Game Geek[1]:
          Tm have several OPcombos, i think ecology expert with kelp algea[sic] is stronger than fishcombo IMO.
      3. (especially collectible card games) Astrategy aiming to win by playing a specific combination of cards (or similar), often in a single turn.
        • 1999, Steven Merritt, “[ISSUE] An alternative to Banning, increase minimum deck size”, inrec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[2] (Usenet):
          Personally I'd like to see an environment where all the major archetypes, control, beatdown, andcombo are viable.
        • 1999, michele oasheim, “The Funnest Combo Decks”, inrec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[3] (Usenet):
          Whenever I play (I play D&D alot[sic] too) I always playcombo.
    4. (Australia, derogatory) ACaucasian man who marries or has a sexual relationship with anAboriginal woman, or who lives among Aboriginal people and adopts Aboriginal culture.
      • 1938,Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, inCapricornia[4], pages107–8:
        "[] 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 acombo as if he lived in a blacks' camp. Isn't that so?[] The casualcomboes are respected, while men like O'Cannon and myself, who rear their kids, are utterly despised.[]"
      • 1993, Journal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, p. 97,[5]
        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.
      • 1996, Jeremy MacClancy, Chris McDonaugh, editors,Popularizing Anthropology[6], London and New York: Routledge, page167:
        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. Thecombo is seen as an anarchic, egalitarian figure whose enjoyment of life largely comes through his pursuit of Aboriginal women.
    5. (graphical user interface, informal) Acombo box.
      • 2000, Marcia Akins, Andy Kramek, Rick Schummer,1001 Things You Wanted to Know about Visual FoxPro, page127:
        Combos and lists are two very powerful controls that allow the user to select from a predetermined set of values.

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    Translations

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    small musical group
    combination
    sequence of simpler actions

    Verb

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    combo (third-person singular simple presentcombos,present participlecomboing,simple past and past participlecomboed)

    1. (slang, transitive) Tocombine.
    2. (video games, transitive) To perform a combo attack on.

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    Dutch

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed fromEnglishcombo.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈkɔm.boː/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Hyphenation:com‧bo

    Noun

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    combo m (pluralcombo's)

    1. (music)combo(small musical group)
    2. (video games)combo(composite move)

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    Galician

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    Etymology 1

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    FromOld Galician-Portuguesecombo(bent, curved) (13th century,Cantigas de Santa Maria). Ultimately fromProto-Celtic*kumbā (compareWelshcwm andIrishcom).

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    combo (femininecomba,masculine pluralcombos,feminine pluralcombas)

    1. curved,bent
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    Verb

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    combo

    1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofcombar

    Italian

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    Etymology

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    Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishcombo.

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    combo m (pluralcombosorinvariable)

    1. (slang)combo, especially:
      1. photomontage
      2. smalljazzensemble

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    1. ^combo inLuciano Canepari,Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
    2. ^combo inDizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

    Portuguese

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    Pronunciation

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    • Rhymes:-õbu
    • Hyphenation:com‧bo

    Etymology 1

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    PortugueseWikipedia has an article on:
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      Middle Englishcombinacioun
      English-o
      Englishcombobor.
      Portuguesecombo

      Borrowed fromEnglishcombo.

      Noun

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      combo m (pluralcombos)

      1. combo(a combination)
      2. (video games)combo(action composed of a sequence of simpler actions)
      3. (video games)combo(two or more gameplay elements which are powerful when used together)
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      Etymology 2

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      Borrowed fromSpanishcombo.

      Adjective

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      combo (femininecomba,masculine pluralcombos,feminine pluralcombas)

      1. concave
        Synonym:côncavo

      Etymology 3

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      Borrowed fromTsongakhombo.

      Noun

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      combo m (pluralcombos)

      1. (Mozambique)disaster,danger

      Etymology 4

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      See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

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      combo

      1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofcombar

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      Spanish

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      Pronunciation

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      • IPA(key): /ˈkombo/[ˈkõm.bo]
      • Rhymes:-ombo
      • Syllabification:com‧bo

      Etymology 1

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      Borrowed fromQuechuakumpa.

      Noun

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      combo m (pluralcombos)

      1. (Latin America)gavel, woodenhammer
        Synonym:mazo
      2. (Bolivia, Chile, Peru)punch
        Synonyms:puñetazo,puñete

      Etymology 2

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      Verb

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      combo

      1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofcombar

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