combo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmbəʊ/
Forms: form: combos
form: comboes
Etymology: Clipping of combination + -o
Senses: examples: text: The jazz combo played nightly at the little restaurant.
glosses: A small musical group.
examples: text: I need to open the safe but I forgot the combo.
text: I order the low priced combo platter: a taco, a burrito and a chimichanga.
text: 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.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
glosses: A combination.
examples: text: Obviously, this is something not seen very often, with super flashy, combo-driven fighters dominating store shelves everywhere.
ref: 2002, Andy Slaven, Video Game Bible, 1985-2002:
topics: games
gaming
video-games
glosses: Effective combination of gameplay elements.
An action composed of a sequence of simpler actions, especially a composite attacking move in a fighting game.
examples: text: Tm have several OP combos, i think ecology expert with kelp algea^([sic]) is stronger than fish combo IMO.
ref: 2019, RyuSora, “OP Combo”, in Board Game Geek:
topics: games
gaming
glosses: Effective combination of gameplay elements.
Two or more gameplay elements (e.g. characters, items) which are powerful when used together.
examples: text: Personally I'd like to see an environment where all the major archetypes, control, beatdown, and combo are viable.
ref: 1999, Steven Merritt, “[ISSUE] An alternative to Banning, increase minimum deck size”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):
text: Whenever I play (I play D&D alot^([sic]) too) I always play combo.
ref: 1999, michele oasheim, “The Funnest Combo Decks”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):
topics: games
gaming
glosses: Effective combination of gameplay elements.
A strategy aiming to win by playing a specific combination of cards (or similar), often in a single turn.
qualifier: especially collectible card games
examples: text: "[…] 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. […]"
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia, pages 107–8:
text: 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.
text: 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.
ref: 1996, Jeremy MacClancy, Chris McDonaugh, editors, Popularizing Anthropology, London and New York: Routledge, page 167:
glosses: A Caucasian man who marries or has a sexual relationship with an Aboriginal woman, or who lives among Aboriginal people and adopts Aboriginal culture.
examples: text: Combos and lists are two very powerful controls that allow the user to select from a predetermined set of values.
ref: 2000, Marcia Akins, Andy Kramek, Rick Schummer, 1001 Things You Wanted to Know about Visual FoxPro, page 127:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A combo box.
Derived terms: comboable
combo box
combo breaker
comboscore
combo skin
combozine
full combo
go combo
key combo
popular beat combo
wombo combo