Tom

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tom \Tom\, n.
     The knave of trumps at gleek. [Obs.]
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Tom \Tom\, n.
     1. A familiar contraction of {Thomas}, a proper name of a
        man.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     2. The male of certain animals; -- often used adjectively or
        in composition; as, tom turkey, tomcat, etc.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Tom
       n 1: contemptuous name for a Black man who is abjectly servile
            and deferential to Whites [syn: {Uncle Tom}]
       2: male cat [syn: {tomcat}]
       3: male turkey [syn: {turkey cock}, {gobbler}, {tom turkey}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  98 Moby Thesaurus words for "tom":
     Bantam, Cheshire cat, Chinchilla cat, Maltese cat, alley cat,
     banty, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, biddy, billy, billy goat,
     blue cat, boar, broiler, brooder, broody hen, bubbly-jock, buck,
     bull, bullock, calico cat, capon, cat, chanticleer, chick,
     chickabiddy, chicken, chicky, cock, cockerel, dog, domestic fowl,
     drake, duck, duckling, dunghill fowl, entire, entire horse, feline,
     fowl, fryer, game fowl, gander, gib, gib-cat, gobbler, goose,
     gosling, grimalkin, guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, hart,
     he-goat, hen, hen turkey, house cat, kit, kitling, kitten, kitty,
     kitty-cat, mouser, partlet, peacock, poulard, poult, poultry,
     pullet, puss, pussy, pussycat, ram, roaster, rooster, setting hen,
     silver cat, spring chicken, stag, stallion, steer, stewing chicken,
     stot, stud, studhorse, tabby, tabby cat, tiger cat, tom turkey,
     tomcat, top cow, top horse, tortoise-shell cat, tup, turkey,
     turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, wether
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Tom, OK
    Zip code(s): 74740