combo

noun

1. 1

   A small musical group.

   The jazz combo played nightly at the little restaurant.

2. 2

   slangA 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 as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.

3. 3

   Effective combination of gameplay elements. An action composed of a sequence of simpler actions, especially a composite attacking move in a fighting game.

   Obviously, this is something not seen very often, with super flashy, combo-driven fighters dominating store shelves everywhere.

4. 4

   Effective combination of gameplay elements. 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.

5. 5

   Effective combination of gameplay elements. 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.

   Whenever I play (I play D&D alot^([sic]) too) I always play combo.

6. 6

   Effective combination of gameplay elements. An unbroken streak of correctly played notes.

7. 7

   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 comboes are respected, while men like O'Cannon and myself, who rear their kids, are utterly despised. […]"

   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.

8. 8

   informalA combo box.

   Combos and lists are two very powerful controls that allow the user to select from a predetermined set of values.

verb

1. 1

   slangTo combine.

2. 2

   To perform a combo attack on.

Forms

plural

combos, comboes

past tense

comboed

past participle

comboed

present participle

comboing

third person singular

combos