Usually means: British slang for a soldier.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word Tommy:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. tommy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Tommy, Tommy: Merriam-Webster
  3. Tommy, tommy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tommy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tommy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Tommy, tommy: Wordnik
  7. Tommy, tommy: Wiktionary
  8. Tommy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. tommy: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Tommy: Dictionary.com
  11. Tommy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Tommy (Dosh album), Tommy (King poem), Tommy (Kipling poem), Tommy (Klein EP), Tommy (London Symphony Orchestra album), Tommy (TV series), Tommy (Telugu film), Tommy (The Wedding Present album), Tommy (The Who EP), Tommy (The Who album), Tommy (album), Tommy (comics), Tommy (disambiguation), Tommy (film), Tommy (given name), Tommy (movie), Tommy (original cast recording), Tommy (pigeon), Tommy (poem), Tommy (rock opera), Tommy (soundtrack), Tommy (statue), Tommy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Tommy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. tommy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Tommy: Rhymezone
  16. Tommy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. tommy: FreeDictionary.org
  18. Tommy: The Word Detective
  19. tommy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Faulkner Glossary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. TOMMY: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tommy (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. tommy, tommy, tommy, tommy, tommy, tommy, tommy, tommy, tommy, tommy, tommy, tommy, tommy, tommy, tommy, tommy, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. tommy, tommy (tank): English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

(Note: See tommies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Tommy)

noun:  A diminutive of the male given name Thomas.
noun:  (uncommon relative to the male given name) A diminutive of the female given name Thomasina.
noun:  (by extension) Any common soldier; a member of the rank and file.
noun:  (rare, now historical) A lesbian.
noun:  (UK, slang, obsolete) Bread, generally a penny roll.
noun:  (UK, slang, obsolete) The supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance.
noun:  (UK, slang, obsolete) A truck, or barter; the exchange of labour for goods instead of money.
noun:  A tommy bar.
verb:  (UK, slang, obsolete, transitive) To pay (employees) according to the truck system, with goods instead of money.
noun:  (colloquial) Ellipsis of Tommy Atkins; a typical private in the British army; a British soldier. [Generic term for any British soldier.]

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