# combo
## English
### Etymology

Clipping of combination +‎ -o

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɒmbəʊ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Noun

combo (plural combos or comboes)
* A small musical group.
    The jazz combo played nightly at the little restaurant.
* (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.
** 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68: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.
* (gaming) Effective combination of gameplay elements.
** (video games) An action composed of a sequence of simpler actions, especially a composite attacking move in a fighting 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.
** Two or more gameplay elements (e.g. characters, items) which are powerful when used together.
*** 2019, RyuSora, “OP Combo”, in Board Game Geek‎:Tm have several OP combos, i think ecology expert with kelp algea is stronger than fish combo IMO.
** (especially collectible card games) A strategy 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”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy‎ (Usenet):Personally I'd like to see an environment where all the major archetypes, control, beatdown, and combo are viable.
*** 1999, michele oasheim, “The Funnest Combo Decks”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy‎ (Usenet):Whenever I play (I play D&D alot too) I always play combo.
* (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.
** 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia‎, pages 107–8:" […] 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 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. […] "
** 1993, Journal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, p. 97,
    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, London and New York: Routledge, page 167: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.
* (graphical user interface, informal) A combo box.
** 2000, Marcia Akins, Andy Kramek, Rick Schummer, 1001 Things You Wanted to Know about Visual FoxPro, page 127:Combos and lists are two very powerful controls that allow the user to select from a predetermined set of values.

#### Derived terms

* comboable
* combo box
* combo breaker
* comboscore
* combo skin
* combozine
* full combo
* go combo
* key combo
* popular beat combo
* wombo combo

#### Descendants

* → Portuguese: combo

#### Translations
### Verb

combo (third-person singular simple present combos, present participle comboing, simple past and past participle comboed)
* (slang, transitive) To combine.
* (video games, transitive) To perform a combo attack on.

### References

* Combo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* coomb

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English combo.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

combo m (plural combo's)
* (music) combo (small musical group)
* (video games) combo (composite move)

#### Related terms

* combinatie

## Galician
### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese combo (“bent, curved”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *kumbā (compare Welsh cwm and Irish com).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkombʊ]

#### Adjective

combo (feminine comba, masculine plural combos, feminine plural combas)
* curved, bent

##### Derived terms

* Cabanacomba (literally “bent cabin”), a hamlet name

##### Related terms

* combar

#### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “combo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cunb”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “combo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “combo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

combo
* first-person singular present indicative of combar

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English combo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkom.bo/
* Rhymes: -ombo
* Hyphenation: cóm‧bo

### Noun

combo m (plural combos or invariable)
* (slang) combo, especially:
** photomontage
** small jazz ensemble

### References

* ↑ combo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
* ↑ combo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkõ.bu/
* Rhymes: -õbu
* Hyphenation: com‧bo

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English combo.

#### Noun

combo m (plural combos)
* combo (a combination)
* (video games) combo (action composed of a sequence of simpler actions)
* (video games) combo (two or more gameplay elements which are powerful when used together)

##### Related terms

* combar
* combinação

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish combo.

#### Adjective

combo (feminine comba, masculine plural combos, feminine plural combas)
* concave
    Synonym: côncavo

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Tsonga khombo.

#### Noun

combo m (plural combos)
* (Mozambique) disaster, danger

### Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

combo
* first-person singular present indicative of combar

### Further reading

* “combo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “combo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkombo/ [ˈkõm.bo]
* Rhymes: -ombo
* Syllabification: com‧bo

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Quechua kumpa.

#### Noun

combo m (plural combos)
* (Latin America) gavel, wooden hammer
    Synonym: mazo
* (Bolivia, Chile, Peru) punch
    Synonyms: puñetazo, puñete

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

combo
* first-person singular present indicative of combar

### Further reading

* “combo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10