combo – English noun declension

English noun forms of combo

Noun: combo
Singularcombo
Pluralcombos; comboes

Sample Sentences

  • The jazz combo played nightly at the little restaurant.
  • 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. [2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:]
  • 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:]
  • 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:]
  • 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 rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):]
  • 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):]
  • "[…] 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. […]" [1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia, pages 107–8:]
  • 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=0ahUKEwi18NvhnufMAhWL6IMKHfnYDUkQ6AEIbDAQ
  • If he sides with the Aborigines against their employers and exploiters, he may be called a ' combo ', and yet he may not achieve popularity with the Aborigines.
  • 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. [1996, Jeremy MacClancy, Chris McDonaugh, editors, Popularizing Anthropology, London and New York: Routledge, page 167:]
  • 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, page 127:]

Etymology

Clipping of combination + -o.

Verbs referencing "combo"

Dutch Nouns combo, Finnish Nouns kombo, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns kombo, Swedish Nouns kombo.