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) of a Caucasian man: to have a sexual relationship with an Aboriginal woman
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter III, in Capricornia, page 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, editors, Playing Australia: Australian Theatre and the International Stage, page 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.