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tom
noun- a prostitute UK, 1948
Thus a police unit that targets prostitution may be dubbed “tom squad” or “tom patrol”. - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 115, 1996
- a resident of Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal, the power elite of Canada CANADA
- — Maledicta, p. 184, 1979: “Canadian slurs, ethnic and other”
- in a casino, a poor tipper US
- — Frank Scoblete, Guerrilla Gambling, p. 330, 1993
- money SOUTH AFRICA, 1975
- — Jean Branford, A Dictionary of South African English, 1978
- a British private soldier UK
A shortening of TOMMY- He was a public schoolboy who went wrong somewhere and joined the army as a tom. — Andy McNab (writing of the late 1970s/early 80s), Immediate Action, p. 212, 1995
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