combo

A small musical group.

Noun

  1. A small musical group.
    • The jazz combo played nightly at the little restaurant.
  2. 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.
    • 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...
  3. Effective combination of gameplay elements.
    • Obviously, this is something not seen very often, with super flashy, combo-driven fighters dominating store shelves everywhere. - 2002, Andy Slaven, Video Game Bible, 1985-2002:

    1. (video games) An action composed of a sequence of simpler actions, especially a composite attacking move in a fighting game.

    2. Two or more gameplay elements (e.g. characters, items) which are powerful when used together.

      • Tm have several OP combos, i think ecology expert with kelp algea^([sic]) is stronger than fish combo IMO. - 2019, RyuSora, “OP Combo”, in Board Game Geek:

    3. (especially collectible card games) A strategy aiming to win by playing a specific combination of cards (or similar), often in a single turn.

      • Personally I'd like to see an environment where all the major archetypes, control, beatdown, and combo are viable. - 1999, Steven Merritt, “[ISSUE] An alternative to Banning, increase minimum deck size”, in...
      • Whenever I play (I play D&D alot^([sic]) too) I always play combo. - 1999, michele oasheim, “The Funnest Combo Decks”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):
  4. A Caucasian man who marries or has a sexual relationship with an Aboriginal woman, or who lives among Aboriginal people and adopts Aboriginal culture.
    • "[…] 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...
    • 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=...
    • 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...
  5. A combo box.
    • Combos and lists are two very powerful controls that allow the user to select from a predetermined set of values. - 2000, Marcia Akins, Andy Kramek, Rick Schummer, 1001 Things You Wanted to Know about Visual FoxPro,...

Origin

Clipping of combination + -o.

Forms

combos comboes

Derived

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

Verb

  1. To combine.
  2. To perform a combo attack on.

Forms

combos comboing comboed