combo
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
games
gaming
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
Etymology: Clipping of combination + -o.
Affixes: -o
Inflected forms:
form: combos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: comboes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: combos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: comboing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: comboed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: comboed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small musical group.
pos: noun
examples: The jazz combo played nightly at the little restaurant.
gloss: A combination.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 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.
gloss: Effective combination of gameplay elements.
pos: noun
examples: Obviously, this is something not seen very often, with super flashy, combo-driven fighters dominating store shelves everywhere.
gloss: Effective combination of gameplay elements.
pos: noun
examples: Tm have several OP combos, i think ecology expert with kelp algea^([sic]) is stronger than fish combo IMO.
gloss: Effective combination of gameplay elements.
pos: noun
examples: Personally I'd like to see an environment where all the major archetypes, control, beatdown, and combo are viable.
Whenever I play (I play D&D alot^([sic]) too) I always play combo.
gloss: A Caucasian man who marries or has a sexual relationship with an Aboriginal woman, or who lives among Aboriginal people and adopts Aboriginal culture.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
derogatory
examples: "[…] 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, 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.
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.
gloss: A combo box.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Combos and lists are two very powerful controls that allow the user to select from a predetermined set of values.
gloss: To combine.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To perform a combo attack on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: comboable
combo box
combo breaker
comboscore
combo skin
combozine
full combo
go combo
key combo
popular beat combo
wombo combo
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