combo

American  

[kom-boh] / ˈkɒm boʊ /

noun

plural

combos

1. Informal.

   1. a small jazz or dance band.

   2. combination.

2. Australian Slang. a white man living with Aboriginal people or having an Aboriginal wife, usually in a common-law marriage.

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combo British  

/ ˈkɒmbəʊ /

noun

1. a small group of musicians, esp of jazz musicians

2. informal any combination

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Etymology

Origin of combo

First recorded in 1920–25; comb(ination) + -o

Example Sentences

Shares fell 37%, a plunge that spoke to trying times in an industry that continues to see rising costs and plummeting consumer spending create a combo plate from hell.

From Los Angeles Times

The walkie-talkie–phone combo would let him hear everything that was going on in the conference room.

From Literature

Consumers had rebelled against the chain over rising costs of its food, with images of an $18 Big Mac combo meal sold in Connecticut going viral in 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal

Greg Ip, the Journal’s chief economics commentator, writes that the combo could boost annualized economic growth in the first half of the year by as much as half a percentage point.

From The Wall Street Journal

On a prediction market, however, each event contract requires two traders to take the opposite sides of every bet, so the parlays have to be preset combos.

From Barron's

Related Words

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