tom
the male of various animals, as the turkey.
a tomcat.
Origin of tom
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How to use tom in a sentence
Wherever they meet and work out — I’m hoping we have an offseason for the younger players — tom doesn’t need it.
With Tom Brady in final year of contract, Bucs say they’d be ‘elated’ to give him extension | Des Bieler | February 25, 2021 | Washington Posttom was polite to a fault and was willing to answer any question about anyone.
Tom Konchalski made basketball better. The sport won’t be the same without him. | John Feinstein | February 8, 2021 | Washington PostFor one, the cells that encode data for tom’s ideas update to his perception of reality.
This Is Where Empathy Lives in the Brain, and How It Works | Shelly Fan | February 2, 2021 | Singularity HubSome messages, according to the FBI, included, “tom all legislators are down in the Tunnels 3floors down,” and “Go through back house chamber doors facing N left down hallway down steps.”
Self-styled militia members planned on storming the U.S. Capitol days in advance of Jan. 6 attack, court documents say | Spencer Hsu, Tom Jackman, Devlin Barrett | January 20, 2021 | Washington Posttom is happy with this, but still wonders whether they are really reading it, or whether they are looking at it and leaving.
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tom Brady, the prettiest of pretty boys, leads the Patriots.
‘A Gronking to Remember’ Speed Read: 8 Naughtiest Bits | Emily Shire | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThere, many minority parents supported tom Torklarson, who favored the education reform agenda.
How Public Sector Unions Divide the Democrats | Daniel DiSalvo | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTtom Rust, a spokesman for the House Ethics Committee, declined to comment to The Daily Beast.
The Felon Who Wouldn’t Leave Congress | Ben Jacobs, David Freedlander | December 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTRetired Det. tom Nerney, formerly of the NYPD Major Case Squad, investigated Shakur.
tom Cotton credits Harvard as the place where he “discovered political philosophy as a way of life.”
tom—I felt out of myself in a way—as though I'd escaped—into—into quite different conditions——'
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodThe conflict in tom's puzzled heart sharpened that evening into dreadful edges that cut him mercilessly whichever way he turned.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodShe gave details of the singular mood that had come upon her with the arrival of Tony, but tom hardly heard her.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodThen, inexplicably, he shifted to the other side that the old, the normal tom presented generously to the new.
The Wave | Algernon Blackwoodtom lingered a few minutes, watching them pass along the verandah to the room beyond.
The Wave | Algernon Blackwood
British Dictionary definitions for tom (1 of 2)
/ (tɒm) /
the male of various animals, esp the cat
(as modifier): a tom turkey
(in combination): a tomcat
Origin of tom
1British Dictionary definitions for tom (2 of 2)
/ (tɒm) /
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Origin of tom
2Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with tom
see every tom, dick, and harry; peeping tom.
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