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go combo en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (Australia, slang) of a Caucasian man: to have a sexual relationship with an Aboriginal woman
    • Hence, the play abounds with abject or degraded forms of whiteness embodied in characters who use addictive drugs, go combo, commit violent crimes or simply succumb to the tropical heat. 2003, Helen Gilbert, “Millennial blues: racism, nationalism and the legacy of empire”, in Elizabeth Schafer, Susan Bradley, editors, Playing Australia: Australian Theatre and the International Stage, page 22:
    • She learned to her horror that the men of Capricornia said that once a man went combo he could never again look with pleasure on a white woman unless he blacked her face. 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter III, in Capricornia, page 47:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
going combo Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
gone combo Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
goes combo Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
went combo Tense=Past lexicographic