- [countable] a flat piece of plastic or metal with a row of thin teeth along one side, used for making your hair neat; a smaller version of this worn by women in their hair to hold it in place or as a decoration
- He just had time to wash his face and drag a comb through his hair before going out.
- She ran a comb through her tangled hair.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + comb- use
- drag
- pull
- …
- a brush and comb
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- [countable, usually singular] the act of using a comb on your hair
- Your hair needs a good comb.
- Your hair could do with a comb!
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + comb- could do with
- need
- give something
- …
- [countable, uncountable] (also honeycomb)a structure of cells with six sides, made by bees for holding their honey and their eggs
- [countable] the soft red part on the top of the head of a male chicken
Word OriginOld English camb, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kam and German Kamm.
Idioms
See comb in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarygo over/through something with a fine-tooth/fine-toothed comb
- to examine or search something very carefully
- The police have gone over the house with a fine-tooth comb.
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