tom
IPA: tˈɑm
noun
- The intact male of the domesticated cat.
- The male of the turkey.
- The male of the orangutan.
- The male of certain other animals.
- (UK, slang, dated) A female prostitute.
- (US, slang) A lesbian.
- (obsolete) The jack of trumps in the card game gleek.
- (UK, regional, obsolete) A close-stool.
- (Britain, greengrocers' slang) A tomato (the fruit).
- (Cockney rhyming slang) jewellery
- A diminutive of the male given name Thomas, also used as a formal male given name.
- A nickname for a common man.
- (euphemistic, personification) Synonym of menstruation.
- A large, deep-toned bell, or a particularly notable example of one.
- (music) Clipping of tom-tom. [A small joined pair of drums, beaten with the hands.]
- (uncommon) Ellipsis of Uncle Tom.. [(derogatory, ethnic slur) A black man who is servile towards white authority and accepting of white supremacy, a black race traitor.]
- (euphemistic) Acronym of time of the month. [(euphemistic) Synonym of menstruation: the monthly period during which a fertile woman menstruates.]
- (cytology) Acronym of Translocon on Outer Membrane.
- Initialism of theory of mind. [(psychology) The ability to form an opinion about what other people are thinking.]
verb
- (intransitive, derogatory, of a black person) To act in an obsequiously servile manner toward white authority.
- (nautical) To dig out a hole below the hatch cover of a bulker and fill it with cargo or weights to aid stability.
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Examples of "tom" in Sentences
- Tom is definitely the accomplice.
- She has a tom and two female cats.
- The women celebrated Tom's birthday.
- The anchor of the ship then traps Tom.
- Tom and May prepare the stall and bicker.
- Tom is also skittish and easily frightened.
- The baby then playfully bonks Tom on the head.
- Tom enters to the stage to rapturous applause.
- Tom sneaks into the kitchen to the refrigerator.
- Tom Hooper, used his camera to spellbind us and perfectly cast his two male leads.
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