gombo

/ˈɡɑmboʊ/
noun
  1. 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.
  2. 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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