combo
noun
com·bo
ˈkäm-(ˌ)bō 
plural combos
1
: a usually small jazz or dance band
2
informal
: combination
an appealing color combo
Examples of combo in a Sentence
The carpet design comes in three different color combos.
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Vendors sold everything from $5 wood fire pizzas to $13 combo plates from Mexican meals to Chinese food and more.
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Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado
february 28, Sacbee.com, 28 Feb. 2026
Sugar, butter, eggs, and your choice of thickening agent (flour or cornmeal or a combo of both), come together to make a luscious custard filling that will please even the pickiest of pie eaters.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2026
This willful overreach is more or less business as usual for Albarn and his old housemate Hewlett, who, by conceiving this cartoon combo of multiracial punks in 1998, advanced a vision of pop hybridity that anticipated our age of cultural superabundance.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 27 Feb. 2026
This playful, low-profile side table and lamp combo is the ideal height for casting an ambient glow around a platform bed frame.
—Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 27 Feb. 2026
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Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado
february 28, Sacbee.com, 28 Feb. 2026
Sugar, butter, eggs, and your choice of thickening agent (flour or cornmeal or a combo of both), come together to make a luscious custard filling that will please even the pickiest of pie eaters.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2026
This willful overreach is more or less business as usual for Albarn and his old housemate Hewlett, who, by conceiving this cartoon combo of multiracial punks in 1998, advanced a vision of pop hybridity that anticipated our age of cultural superabundance.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 27 Feb. 2026
This playful, low-profile side table and lamp combo is the ideal height for casting an ambient glow around a platform bed frame.
—Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 27 Feb. 2026
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“Combo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/combo. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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