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▪ I. tom, n.2|tɒm|
Colloq. abbrev. of tomato.
1920Chambers's Jrnl. 15 May 384/1 The acreage of ‘outside toms’ is increasing annually. 1935[see cue n. 4]. 1976Coventry Evening Tel. 27 Oct. 9/3 (heading) Summer of the giant toms.
▪ II. tom, n.3|tɒm|
Slang abbrev. of tomfoolery (sense 2, = jewellery).
1955P. Wildeblood Against the Law 119 Two grand's worth of tom. 1970G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard ii. 68 What d'you do with the tom and money you had out of Manor Gardens this afternoon? 1980Times 23 Feb. 3/3 One of thieves..told police: ‘When we found the tom (Cockney slang: tomfoolery jewellery) in the car we were amazed.’
▪ III. tom, n.4|tɒm|
Slang abbrev. of tom-tom n. 1 d.
1970J. Wainwright Freeze thy Blood 11 Fatso grinned and notched the buckle of a tom case. 1975J. Pidgeon Flame v. 65 Around the drum kit he arranged four mikes, one for the bass drum, one for the floor tom, one for the snare, and one overhead.
▪ IV. tom, v.|tɒm|
[f. Tom n.1]
1. trans. To address familiarly as ‘Tom’. nonce-use.
1900S. Weyman Sophia xxiv, ‘You may Tom me, you don't alter it’, he answered.
2. intr. [f. Tom n.1 1 f.] To behave in an ingratiating and servile way to someone of another (esp. white) race. Also to tom it (up). U.S. slang.
1963L. Bennett in W. King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 161 They say you are going to chicken out, Papa... They're betting you'll ‘Tom’. 1972M. J. Bosse Incident at Naha ii. 94 Virgil just smiled, Tomming it up. 1976Public Opinion Q. XXXIX. 527 The respondent ‘accommodates’, or to use the colloquial term, ‘toms’, in order to get through the racial interaction with minimal tension.
3. intr. To practise prostitution, to behave promiscuously; also, to have sexual intercourse in such a context. Also to tom (it) around. slang.
1964Z. Progl Woman of Underworld iii. 35 They were perfectly willing to go ‘tomming’ on the streets to earn a few quid, but I never could. 1968‘J. Ross’ Diminished by Death i. 14 She's just tomming around. 1973J. Rossiter Manipulators ix. 102 This woman... Is she tomming it around with the local villains? 1981A. Sewart Close your Eyes & Sleep xviii. 181 What was she doing? Tomming, to put it bluntly. She was having it off with a bloke.
Hence ˈtomming vbl. n.
1968J. Lock Lady Policeman ii. 12 A prostitute was a ‘tom’..and to practise prostitution was ‘tomming’. 1973Black World May 44 Afrikan People all over the world Conscious, unconscious, struggling, sleeping, Resisting, tomming, killing the enemy. 1981‘J. Ross’ Dark Blue & Dangerous ix. 55 His own tomming around had given him a charitable view of casual sex.
▪ V. tom
var. taum; obs. form of toom n.1 |