Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word TOM
TOM
Definitions of TOM
- The male of the turkey.
- The male of the orangutan.
- The male of certain other animals.
- The intact male of the domesticated cat.
- (US, slang) A lesbian.
- (music) Clipping of tom-tom.
- (obsolete) The jack of trumps in the card game gleek.
- (UK, regional, obsolete) A close-stool.
- (British, greengrocers'slang) A tomato (the fruit).
- (Cockney rhyming slang) jewellery
- (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.
- A male given name, also used as a formal male given name.
- A nickname for a common man. [since 1377]
- (euphemism, personification) Synonym of menstruation.
- (uncommon) Ellipsis of Uncle Tom..
- A large, deep-toned bell, or a particularly notable example of one. [since 17th century]
- (euphemism) Acronym of time of the month.
- (cytology) Acronym of Translocon on Outer Membrane.
- Initialism of theory of mind.
- (UK, slang, dated) A female prostitute.
Number of letters
3
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using TOM in a Sentence
- Her books, including The Tale of Jemima Puddle Duck and The Tale of Tom Kitten, have sold more than 250 million copies.
- His other works include The African Queen (1935; turned into a 1951 film by John Huston) and The Good Shepherd (1955; turned into a 2020 film, Greyhound, adapted by and starring Tom Hanks).
- Tom died on November 3, 2014, aged 77, in Belmont, Massachusetts, of complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- The plot centers on a doctor (Tom Cruise) who is shocked when his wife (Nicole Kidman) reveals that she had contemplated having an affair 12 months earlier.
- The first client (also called Gnutella) from which the network got its name was developed by Justin Frankel and Tom Pepper of Nullsoft in early 2000, soon after the company's acquisition by AOL.
- It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, the narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective) and a friend of Tom Sawyer.
- It was founded on February 1, 1991, by four members of the computer company Softdisk: programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian Carmack.
- Bingham was among the passengers who, along with Todd Beamer, Tom Burnett and Jeremy Glick, formed the plan to retake the plane from the hijackers, and led the effort that resulted in the crash of the plane into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, thwarting the hijackers' plan to crash the plane into a building in Washington, D.
- Pico, a character created by Tom Fulp that debuted in the Newgrounds Flash game Pico's School, also featured in Friday Night Funkin'.
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is an absurdist, existential tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard, first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1966.
- Set in 1944 in Normandy, France, during World War II, it follows a group of soldiers, led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks), on a mission to locate Private James Francis Ryan (Matt Damon) and bring him home safely after his three brothers have been killed in action.
- Following their early incarnation as rock 'n' roll duo Tom and Jerry, Columbia Records signed the pair in late 1963.
- The group's most prominent lineup consisted of Tom Verlaine (vocals, guitar), Richard Lloyd (guitar), Billy Ficca (drums), and Fred Smith (bass).
- Traditional Thai cuisine loosely falls into four categories: tom (boiled dishes), yam (spicy salads), tam (pounded foods), and kaeng (curries).
- The Hunt for Red October is the debut novel by American author Tom Clancy, first published on October 1, 1984, by the Naval Institute Press.
- The Cardinal of the Kremlin is an espionage thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and released on May 20, 1988.
- Clark (real name John Terence Kelly, at times codenamed Rainbow Six) is a fictional character created by Tom Clancy.
- The band The Echoes formed in 1959 in Niles, Michigan, then evolved into Tom and the Tornadoes, with 12-year-old Tommy James (then known as Tommy Jackson) as lead singer.
- The name Masaccio is a humorous version of Maso (short for Tommaso), meaning "clumsy" or "messy" Tom.
- According to poet Allen Ginsberg, he was "a hero of American consciousness", and writer Tom Robbins called him a "brave neuronaut".
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