Usually means: Male cat, especially if neutered.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tom, Tom, tom: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Tom, tom, tom: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Tom, tom: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tom: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Tom, tom: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tom, Tom, Tom, Tom, tom, tom, tom: Wordnik
  7. tom: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Tom, tom: Wiktionary
  9. tom: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tom: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tom: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tom: Dictionary.com
  13. Tom: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tom: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. TOM (mascot), TOM, Tom (American TV series), Tom (Lost), Tom (Spanish TV series), Tom (given name), Tom (instrument), Tom (pattern matching language), Tom: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tom: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tom: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tom: Rhymezone
  19. Tom: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. TOM, Tom: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. Tom: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. tom: Free Dictionary
  23. tom: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Tom: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. Tom: World Wide Words
  26. tom: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Faulkner Glossary (No longer online)
  2. -tom: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. TOM: Netlingo
  2. SMS Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. tom: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tom-: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. tom, tom(o)-: Medical dictionary
  3. Tom-: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. TOM: Acronym Finder
  3. TOM: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. tom: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. TOM: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  2. TOM: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. tom, tom, tom, tom, tom, tom, tom, tom, tom, tom, tom, tom, tom, tom, Tom, Tom, Tom, Tom: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tom: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. T.O.M, T.O.M, Tom: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See toming as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The male of the domesticated cat, especially if not neutered.
noun:  The male of the turkey.
noun:  The male of the orangutan.
noun:  The male of certain other animals.
noun:  (UK, slang, dated) A female prostitute.
noun:  (US, slang) A lesbian.
noun:  (obsolete) The jack of trumps in the card game gleek.
noun:  (UK, regional, obsolete) A close-stool.
noun:  (British, greengrocers' slang) A tomato (the fruit).
noun:  (Cockney rhyming slang) jewellery
verb:  (intransitive, derogatory, of a black person) To act in an obsequiously servile manner toward white authority.
verb:  (nautical) To dig out a hole below the hatch cover of a bulker and fill it with cargo or weights to aid stability.
noun:  A diminutive of the male given name Thomas, also used as a formal male given name.
noun:  A nickname for a common man.
noun:  (euphemistic, personification) Synonym of menstruation.
noun:  A large, deep-toned bell, or a particularly notable example of one.
noun:  (music) Clipping of tom-tom. [A small joined pair of drums, beaten with the hands.]
noun:  (uncommon) Ellipsis of Uncle Tom. [(derogatory, ethnic slur) A black man who is servile towards white authority and accepting of white supremacy, a black race traitor.]
noun:  (euphemistic) Acronym of time of the month. [(euphemistic) Synonym of menstruation: the monthly period during which a fertile woman menstruates.]
noun:  (cytology) Acronym of Translocon on Outer Membrane.
noun:  Initialism of theory of mind. [(psychology) The ability to form an opinion about what other people are thinking.]

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