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Sambo

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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
  • Sambo is an Italian drink made with Sambuca (an aniseed liquor) and Borghetti (a coffee liqueur)
  • Sambo is a fictional character in William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair, frequently referred to as "Black Sambo".
  • Sambo's Grave, the grave of a slave at Sunderland Point in Lancashire, England.
  • TG Sambo, a Korean computer manufacturer.
  • Sambomaster, a Japanese rock band.
  • see also Zambo, a possibly related Spanish term.

Not to be confused with Samba, an Afro-Brazilian dancing/music style.

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    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 of... more


     
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