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tommy
1 American
[tom-ee]
/ ˈtɒm i /
noun
British.
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tommies
plural
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(sometimes initial capital letter) Tommy Atkins.
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Slang. bread, especially brown bread, or rations, as formerly distributed to troops and workers.
tommy
British
/ ˈtɒmɪ /
noun
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Etymology
Origin of tommy
First recorded in 1775–85; by shortening
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In 2012, his account tweeted "@EDLTrobinson tommy Robinson for prime minister".
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025
When crimes involving tommy guns began making headlines, many lawmakers wanted to restrict the machine gun's use to soldiers and law enforcement.
From National Geographic ● Jun. 14, 2016
Modern-day bandits in developed countries are far likelier to use keyboards than tommy guns, remotely siphoning millions from the comfort and safety of another country.
From Forbes ● Nov. 8, 2013
After all, he said, some adjoining scenes were “kind of tommy gun heavy.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2013
The national feeling of the tommy resolves itself into this—here he is.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
It’s right there in the medical books, along with Belsey fundoplication, Heineke-Mikulicz pyloroplasty and Keller’s excision arthroplasty: Tommy John surgery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
"In the naïve quark model, there are three quarks inside a proton, but nothing else," said Tommy Tsang, formerly a postdoc at Kent State University, now at DOE's Argonne National Laboratory.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
The next inning, Tommy Edman expanded that advantage with a solo homer of his own off Gasser.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Now, fans fear that he will join the list of young flamethrowers who will go through the Tommy John rite of passage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
“I don’t think Tommy Lasorda was the most open-minded individual. He was the manager of the Dodgers at the time.”
From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner
"The soldiers who once called each other Redcoats and Yankees became the Tommies and the GIs who together saved the free world," he said.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
The Tommies would then go from having the second-smallest basketball arena in the Summit League to the top half of the 10-team conference in capacity.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2023
If the Tommies beat Butler on Saturday, or if Davidson beats Dayton, they’ll win the title outright.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
Last week, the Tommies clinched at least a share of their conference championship.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
But he was in the RAF and the Tommies held him accountable.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Among the crocus, some gardeners find that Crocus tommasinianus, the so-called tommies, are less often disturbed.
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2020
I can never remember whether we're supposed to think the likes of our footballers would make useless tommies, or whether we're meant to sniff that that is all they really are.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2013
Jagan had to call in British tommies airflown from London to restore order.
From Time Magazine Archive
This time the P.O.W.s are Germans, and their guards are tommies.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were tiger cats, Maltese cats, black-and-white cats, black cats and white cats, tommies and females, and his heart leaped to meet the pleading mews of all.
From The Copy-Cat and Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
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