Meaning

A small musical group..

Definitions by Sense

1. A small musical group.
2. (slang) A combination.
3. (gaming) Effective combination of gameplay elements.
4. (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.
5. (graphical user interface, informal) A combo box.
6. (slang, transitive) To combine.
7. (video games, transitive) To perform a combo attack on.

Example Sentences

The jazz combo played nightly at the little restaurant.

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.

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 an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.

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+box%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi18NvhnufMAhWL6IMKHfnYDUkQ6AEIbDAQ 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.

"[…] 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 utterly despised. […]"

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. The combo is seen as an anarchic, egalitarian figure whose enjoyment of life largely comes through his pursuit of Aboriginal women.

Combos and lists are two very powerful controls that allow the user to select from a predetermined set of values.

Word Forms

• combos
• comboes
• comboing
• comboed

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When Should You Use Combo?

Use combo when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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