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Tom

 (tŏm)
n. Offensive
An Uncle Tom.

tom 1

 (tŏm)
n.
The male of various animals, especially a male cat or turkey.
[Tom, nickname for Thomas.]

tom 2

 (tŏm)
n.
See tom-tom.
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tom

(tɒm)
n
(Zoology)
a. the male of various animals, esp the cat
b. (as modifier): a tom turkey.
c. (in combination): a tomcat.
[C16: special use of the shortened form of Thomas, applied to any male, often implying a common or ordinary type of person, etc]

tom

(tɒm)
n
Austral and NZ a temporary supporting post
[from a specialized use of tom1]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

tom

(tɒm)

n.
1. the male of various animals, as the turkey.
2. a tomcat.
[1755–65; generic use of Tom, male given name]

Tom

(tɒm)

n., v. Tommed, Tom•ming. Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. n.
1. Uncle Tom.
v.i.
2. (often l.c.) to act like an Uncle Tom.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.tom - (ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to WhitesTom - (ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites
Uncle Tom
depreciation - a communication that belittles somebody or something
ethnic slur - a slur on someone's race or language
Black person, Black - a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
2.tom - male cattom - male cat        
tomcat
domestic cat, Felis catus, Felis domesticus, house cat - any domesticated member of the genus Felis
gib - a castrated tomcat
3.tom - male turkeytom - male turkey        
tom turkey, turkey cock, gobbler
Meleagris gallopavo, turkey - large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food
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Translations
kocour
hankat
koiraskolli
högni
kocur
cotoimascul
hane

Tom

[tɒm]
A. N (familiar form) of Thomas any Tom, Dick or Harry → un fulano cualquiera
B. CPD Tom Thumb N → Pulgarcito

tom

[tɒm] N (also tom cat) → gato m (macho)
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

tom

[ˈtɒm] n → matou m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

Tom

n dim of Thomas any Tom, Dick or Harry (inf) → jeder x-Beliebige; you don’t have to invite every Tom, Dick and Harry (inf) → du brauchst ja nicht gerade Hinz und Kunz einzuladen (inf); it’s not every Tom, Dick and Harry who can afford this → nicht jeder kann sich (dat) → so was leisten

tom

n (= cat) → Kater m

tom

:
Tom Thumb
n → der Däumling
tomtit
n → (Blau)meise f
tom-tom
n → Tamtam nt
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

Tom

[tɒm] n any Tom, Dick or Harry → chiunque, il primo venuto

tom

[tɒm] n (fam) → micio
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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"I'm afraid neither of them would be quite up to telephone talk yet," laughed Tom. "No, this was the gentleman who wrote that interesting article about the idol of gold," and he motioned to the magazine Ned held in his hand.
I'm willing to be your financial manager, Tom Swift, but please don't ask me to be a high-brow.
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THE harder Tom tried to fasten his mind on his book, the more his ideas wandered.
Tom's bosom friend sat next him, suffering just as Tom had been, and now he was deeply and grate- fully interested in this entertainment in an instant.
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Well, then, she would stay up there and starve herself,--hide herself behind the tub, and stay there all night,--and then they would all be frightened, and Tom would be sorry.
Tom had been too much interested in his talk with Luke, in going the round of the premises, walking in and out where he pleased, and whittling sticks without any particular reason,--except that he didn't whittle sticks at school,--to think of Maggie and the effect his anger had produced on her.
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IT was very remarkable that a young gentleman who had been brought up under one continuous system of unnatural restraint, should be a hypocrite; but it was certainly the case with Tom. It was very strange that a young gentleman who had never been left to his own guidance for five consecutive minutes, should be incapable at last of governing himself; but so it was with Tom.
He could do no less than ask Tom up; and Tom could do no less than go up.
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This history must henceforth accommodate itself to the change which Roxana has consummated, and call the real heir "Chambers" and the usurping little slave, "Thomas `a Becket"--shortening this latter name to "Tom," for daily use, as the people about him did.
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It was as much as he could do now, with the help of his big stick and frequent stops, to hobble down to the canal with Master Tom, and bait his hook for him, and sit and watch his angling, telling him quaint old country stories; and when Tom had no sport, and detecting a rat some hundred yards or so off along the bank, would rush off with Toby the turnspit terrier, his other faithful companion, in bootless pursuit, he might have tumbled in and been drowned twenty times over before Benjy could have got near him.
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Tom and Fanny laughed at her fancy, but she did not tire of it, for the child was lonely, and found something in that little room which the great house could not give her.
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If any bagman of that day could have caught sight of the little neck-or-nothing sort of gig, with a clay- coloured body and red wheels, and the vixenish, ill tempered, fast-going bay mare, that looked like a cross between a butcher's horse and a twopenny post-office pony, he would have known at once, that this traveller could have been no other than Tom Smart, of the great house of Bilson and Slum, Cateaton Street, City.
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