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tomato noun an attractive woman, especially a young one US, 1929- There was a neat tomato down on Third Avenue who loved to play tricks herself, especially against the police. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 41, 1947
- The tomatoes who solicit the young and lonesome men in uniform in this neighborhood are pretty low. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 32, 1951
- TOMATO’s TOMATO MISSING. — Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, p. 109, 1958
- Tomatoes nobody wants much to do with. — Willard Motely, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 294, 1958
- There were more poolrooms than hot-dog stands, and the tomatoes running on the loose were beautiful beyond compare. — Minnesota Fats, The Bank Shot, p. 57, 1966
- When Ralph Ginzburg began publishing Avant Garde magazine, rival editor Paul Krassner asked sardonically, “How avant garde is a man who still calls women ‘tomatoes’?” — Robert A. Wilson, Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words, p. 242, 1972
- Another hot tomato, Wilson? Hah! — Terry Southern, Now Dig This, p. 36, 1975
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