In the eighteenth century, in South America, this word described a mulatto of mixed negro and Indian or negro and European blood. By the mid-nineteenth century ‘Sambo’ was being used as an automatic nickname for a black male. The two uses...

Sambo may have one of the following meanings. Sambo (martial art), a martial art developed in USSR. Sambo (racial term). Sambo from The Story of Little Black Sambo, a book. Sambo's, a restaurant chain. An Irish and Australian slang word for a sandwich...