gombo
/ˈɡɑmboʊ/
noun
- A type of soup or stew made with okra, meat, and vegetables, popular in the southern United States (variant of gumbo).
- My grandmother made a spicy gombo with chicken and sausage.
- The restaurant's seafood gombo was full of shrimp and crab.
- We ate a bowl of hot gombo on a cold winter evening.
- A thick, muddy soil found in some parts of the southern United States.
- The tractor got stuck in the gombo after the heavy rain.
- Farmers in the region know how to work the gombo soil for cotton.
- Walking through the gombo left our boots caked with mud.
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