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n. (plural of coomb English)
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Coombs is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Anthony Coombs (politician) (born 1952), British Conservative politician
- Anthony Coombs (Canadian football) (born 1992), Canadian football running back
- Bobby Coombs (1908-1991), American baseball player
- Clyde Coombs (1912–1988), American psychologist
- David Coombs (born 1937), British author, historian and teacher
- Derek Coombs (1931–2014), British Conservative politician
- Doug Coombs (1957–2006), American Alpine skier and mountaineer
- Ernie Coombs, Canadian/American children's entertainer, host of the long-running Canadian TV series Mr. Dressup from 1967-1996
- Frank Coombs, United States Representative from California
- H.C. Coombs Herbert Cole (Nugget) Coombs, Australian economist and Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia 1960-1968
- Jack Coombs, Major-League baseball pitcher from 1906-1920
- James Coombs, American college football coach
- John Coombs (1922–2013), British racing driver and racing team owner
- Kris Coombs-Roberts, guitarist with Welsh band Funeral for a Friend
- Mary Coombs (born 1929), British computer programmer
- Melvin Coombs (1948–1997), Wampanoag dancer, cultural educator and cultural interpreter
- Nathan Coombs, founder of Napa, California
- Orde M. Coombs (1939–1984), Saint Vincent-born American writer and editor
- Pat Coombs (1926–2002), English actress
- Patricia Coombs (born 1926), American children's author and illustrator
- Peter Coombs (priest) (born 1928), English Anglican archdeacon
- Robert Coombs, Australian politician
- Robert Coombs (cricketer), English cricketer
- Robin Coombs (1921–2006), British immunologist, the Coombs test is named after him.
- Simon Coombs (born 1947), British Conservative politician
- Stephen Coombs, one of Britain's best known pianists
- Ted Coombs (born 1954), American artist, record-breaking roller skater and forensic scientist
Usage examples of "coombs".
Then each night, Newman, Weiskopf, Macklin, Coombs, McDade, Robertson, and Sergeant Major Gabbard worked late into the night, searching for vulnerabilities and ways to reduce them.
Until the previous Friday, Captain Bart Coombs had been limping around on a crutch, the result of a parachute mishap during a Delta training operation at Camp Dawson in West Virginia.
Area 35 Andrews Air Force Base Wednesday, 30 November 1994 0700 Hours, Local Newman, McDade, Coombs, and Robertson were being given the royal treatment.
McDade, Coombs, and Robertson pulled in behind him a couple of minutes later.
Newman, McDade, Robertson, and Coombs took mugs of hot, black coffee to their seats around a government-issue gray steel table.
International Sanctions Enforcement Groupwere filtering back in from their briefing and into their seats as Weiskopf walked to the front of the room with Newman, McDade, Robertson, and Coombs behind him.
Newman McDade, Robertson, and Coombs more than an hour to make the trip from Andrews back to the White House for their meeting with Harrod By the time they had completed the day with Joshua Weiskopf and hi thirty-seven ISEG operators, Newman had developed the outline of plan for training, deploying, supporting, and communicating with the force, and he told them that he aimed to have it approved at the Whig House before the unit returned to Fort Bragg.
Prior to departing Andrews, Newman told Weiskopf and the others how he planned to structure his tiny headquarters: Coombs, who had been part of Delta before his exile to the White House, would bi his operations and training boss-the S-3 for this outfit.
McDade, Robertson, and Coombs, who had heard Harrod the night before, denied telling anyone.
By working almost nonstop for three days, Newman, Weiskopf, Coombs, McDade, and Robertson had developed detailed plans for how the ISEG would work once a mission assignment came down from the UN.
But instead of picking up another revision to the ISEG training schedule that Coombs had placed there for approval, he leaned back and reflected on his nagging sense that something was wrong.
An hour later, the ISEG filed back into their hangar for the mission brief from McDade, Coombs, Weiskopf, and finally Newman.
If the Turks agree, ISETs Bravo, Charlie, and Delta will move up there with Captain Coombs and me.
Newman had already displaced ISETs Alpha and Bravo forward to Siirt as the QRE He placed Bart Coombs in command of the QRF, with Captain Bruno Macklin, the SAS officer, as Executive Officer.
Komulakov told Coombs that ISET Echo was likely dead and he should try to rescue any survivors from the downed MD-80.