combo
Americannoun
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combos
plural
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Informal.
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a small jazz or dance band.
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Australian Slang. a white man living with Aboriginal people or having an Aboriginal wife, usually in a common-law marriage.
noun
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a small group of musicians, esp of jazz musicians
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informal any combination
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of combo
First recorded in 1920–25; comb(ination) + -o
Example Sentences
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Eli Lilly doubles down on its pipeline with new data for weight-loss pill Foundayo and next-generation combo drug EloraTZP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
He received applause for his fourth costume of the evening - a jacket and kilt combo, featuring the Loch Ness Monster.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
“Raising Cane’s is a step above other fast-food chicken forms,” one friend explained to me, a non-Caniac, over his three-finger combo.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
Prices run from $11 to $16—about 10 times as much as Costco’s vaunted hot-dog-and-soda combo, which has cost $1.50 since the mid-1980s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
I was in the living room practicing my right jab-left hook combo in front of a full-length mirror I took from her room.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
Over the past 21 months, we’ve introduced $5 Meal Deals, launched the McValue platform with “buy one, add one for $1” options and brought back Extra Value Meals with discounts on popular combos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
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 ● Dec. 22, 2025
One of my favorite salad-sandwich combos is at Cafe Dulce in Little Tokyo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2025
To win back customers, McDonald’s has launched a slew of value-meal combos and standalone deals that just may be bearing fruit — but didn’t for a long stretch.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 25, 2025
Yes, just turning into the bridge approach, two tractor-trailer combos, preceded and followed by white cars.
From Take the Reason Prisoner by John Joseph McGuire
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