tommy
(sometimes initial capital letter) Tommy Atkins.
Slang. bread, especially brown bread, or rations, as formerly distributed to troops and workers.
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Add tommy and Billy, and you have a full team of teen supers.
Director Hayward, frustrated that his plans to resurrect Vision and turn him into a weapon have gone sideways, opens fire on Billy and tommy.
WandaVision’s series finale sets up the future of Wanda and the MCU | Alex Abad-Santos | March 5, 2021 | VoxThe legal argument for impeachment turns on a legal principle that Raskin said he discussed not long ago with tommy, who had followed both his parents to Harvard Law School and was in the middle of his second year.
He buried his son a week ago. Now Jamie Raskin is helping lead the impeachment charge. | Meagan Flynn, Erin Cox | January 12, 2021 | Washington PostThe book follows tommy and Tuppence, young English adventurers in the 1920s who set out to help an American millionaire find his missing cousin.
There isn’t a generation of Celtics fans for whom tommy’s presence hasn’t been felt.
Tommy Heinsohn, a Celtics institution for more than a half-century, dies at 86 | Matt Bonesteel | November 10, 2020 | Washington Post
An escort who goes by the name of “tommy” has experienced a wide variety of female clients.
Career-Minded Women Turn to Male Escorts For No-Strings Fun and (Maybe) Sex | Aurora Snow | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTtommy describes himself as more of the “boyfriend experience.”
Career-Minded Women Turn to Male Escorts For No-Strings Fun and (Maybe) Sex | Aurora Snow | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTBut tommy, like many others, has been unable to obtain the documentation required by the State Department for the visa.
Obama Went to War to Save Them, But They Can’t Get U.S. Visas | Christine van den Toorn, Sherizaan Minwalla | September 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTtommy first started teaching himself English when the U.S. Army came to Sinjar in 2003 in order to get a job with them.
Obama Went to War to Save Them, But They Can’t Get U.S. Visas | Christine van den Toorn, Sherizaan Minwalla | September 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTtommy worked with American troops for two years starting in 2005.
Obama Went to War to Save Them, But They Can’t Get U.S. Visas | Christine van den Toorn, Sherizaan Minwalla | September 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor she called him 'tommy'; she was his mother; love, tenderness, and pity emanated from her like a cloud of perfume.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodHere Master tommy thought fit to try the strength of his lungs, and began squalling lustily.
The World Before Them | Susanna MoodieAs for tommy, he went off in a free-and-easy sort of way, without any definite designs, in search of adventures.
The Garret and the Garden | R.M. Ballantynetommy Chitling hasnt won the point, and I went partners with him against the Artful and dum.
Oliver Twist, Vol. II (of 3) | Charles Dickenstommy walked smartly up to her, despite the stern gaze of a suspicious policeman on the opposite side of the street.
The Garret and the Garden | R.M. Ballantyne
British Dictionary definitions for tommy
/ (ˈtɒmɪ) /
(often capital) British informal a private in the British Army: Also called: Tommy Atkins (ˈætkɪnz)
Origin of tommy
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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