Skip to content
Allin

combing

verbnounnounattested in dialogue

The act by which something is combed.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of combpresent participle and gerund of comb

noun

  1. 1

    The act by which something is combed.

    My hair needs frequent combings; otherwise, it gets matted.

  2. 2

    Individual hairs that drop out when the hair is combed.

    Weiner had prepared a rape test kit, taking swabs and smears orally, rectally, vaginally, anorectally, and paravaginally. He'd also collected blood, head and pubic hair combings, and left and right fingernail clippings.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of coamingAlternative spelling of coaming.

    I stole quietly to the combings of the hatchway, which was open, and we looked down into the 'tween decks.

Forms

plural
combings
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).