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Tom   /tɑm/   Listen
Tom

noun
1.
(ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites.  Synonym: Uncle Tom.
2.
Male cat.  Synonym: tomcat.
3.
Male turkey.  Synonyms: gobbler, tom turkey, turkey cock.



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"Tom" Quotes from Famous Books



... in answer to his request, the air was rent by the most tremendous crash he had ever heard. The pirates had fired Long Tom at them. ...
— Peter and Wendy • James Matthew Barrie

... a black spot on his back, is with Tom. See! Tom has his hat in his hand. He has left his big top ...
— McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition • William Holmes McGuffey

... School Days Tom Fairfield at Sea Tom Fairfield in Camp Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck ...
— The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon - or The Hermit of the Cave • James Carson

... rifles for big game—lever action, automatic. In every igloo he found men stretched out asleep, and this on a splendid day for hunting. They were but waiting for the night, which they would spend in wild singing, tom-tom drumming and ...
— Panther Eye • Roy J. Snell

... highly improbable, still Willis persisted in his theory of the shipwreck; he only doubted whether the individual on shore was a marine or the cabin-boy, an officer or a foremast man, and, if the latter, whether it was Bill, Tom, Bob, or Ned. ...
— Willis the Pilot • Paul Adrien


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