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sambo
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Word definitions for sambo in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sambo \Sam"bo\, n. [Sp. zambo, sambo.] A colloquial or humorous appellation for a negro; sometimes, the offspring of a black person and a mulatto; a zambo.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context slang Ireland English) A sandwich.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sambo may refer to: Sambo (racial term) , an obsolete term for a person with African heritage that is now considered offensive Sambo (martial art) , developed in the USSR Sambo, the main character in the 1899 book The Story of Little Black Sambo Sambo's ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"person of mixed blood in America and Asia," 1748, perhaps from Spanish zambo "bandy-legged," probably from Latin scambus "bow-legged," from Greek skambos. Used variously in different regions to indicate some mixture of African, European, and Indian blood; ...
Usage examples of sambo.
All fled in different directions, except Sambo, who, presuming on the favor which the keeper had to him as a licensed wag, stood his ground, ducking his head with a facetious grin, whenever the master made a dive at him.
It was not Sambo, however, but Legree, who was pursuing them with violent execrations.
She sat in the living room, her feet propped against the coffee table with Sambo nestled contentedly in her lap.
Her intention was to continue feeding Sambo, who could be downright insistent, and talk at the same time.
She hung up the receiver and had already reached for her coat when Sambo reminded her he had yet to be fed.
Plague on that Sambo, to kick up his yer row between me and the new hands!
I know what you are thinking, Sambo, but this is the last thing I wanted, I can tell you.
Usk, the Kipchak sambo wrestler, was not as large as his partner Whale, but at six-feet two-inches and 250 pounds of muscle he was no midget.
It is closely related to judo, having borrowed many techniques from it, and on occasion judokas crossed over to compete successfully in sambo tournaments.
He grabbed my leg and pushed me back in a sambo takedown, then tried for a leghold that almost wiped me out.
Thai kick-boxers is valid for judo, and every leg takedown of sambo wrestling.
Sambo, Sambo, go back to the house with Miss Lucy and help her bring some things which she wants.
Stock Exchange, Jos--and, Sambo, never mind the elephant, but give me and Mr.
Or if, on the contrary, we had taken a fancy for the terrible, and made the lover of the new femme de chambre a professional burglar, who bursts into the house with his band, slaughters black Sambo at the feet of his master, and carries off Amelia in her night-dress, not to be let loose again till the third volume, we should easily have constructed a tale of thrilling interest, through the fiery chapters of which the reader should hurry, panting.
Miss Crawley was waiting in her carriage below, her people wondering at the locality in which they found themselves, and gazing upon honest Sambo, the black footman of Bloomsbury, as one of the queer natives of the place.