go combo

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go combo (third-person singular simple present goes combo, present participle going combo, simple past went combo, past participle gone combo)

1. (Australia, slang) to have a sexual relationship with an Aboriginal woman (of a Caucasian man)
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter III, p. 47,

     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.

   • 2003, Helen Gilbert, "Millennial blues: racism, nationalism and the legacy of empire" in Elizabeth Schafer & Susan Bradley (eds.), Playing Australia: Australian Theatre and the International Stage, p. 22

     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.