Tommy

proper noun

1. 1

   A diminutive of the male given name Thomas.

   The Tory hard right is in the ascendancy, and a fascist street movement – led by convicted fraudster Tommy Robinson – represents a growing threat.

2. 2

   A diminutive of the female given name Thomasina.

noun

1. 1

   Ellipsis of Tommy Atkins, a typical private in the British army; a British soldier. Any common soldier; a member of the rank and file.

2. 2

   obsoleteA lesbian.

   Here, here, here again! Coquettes, flirts, harlots, adultereſſes, tulips, pinks, roſes, lilies, violets, wormwood, fennel, and hemlock! Unnatural, unnatural, unnatural! Tommies, Tommies, Tommies! Women kiſſing women; doating, languiſhing, dying, pining, crying, caterwauling, for each other! Ha, ha, ha! O the madneſs of this age!

3. 3

   penis

   Resolutely I refrained from thrusting or withdrawing for a minute or two and then drew out slowly to her lips and as I pushed Tommy gently in again, she leaned up and kissed me passionately.

4. 4

   Variant of Tommy AtkinsEllipsis of Tommy Atkins, a typical private in the British army; a British soldier.

   Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, 'ow's yer soul?" But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll

   And every night now he played pontoon, that game of the Tommies, with Mrs Bolton, gambling with sixpences.

   Meanwhile the Tommies had discovered several large tins of ham in the captured lorry. 'That,' said the big Nazi, 'is for our tea.' 'No,' said a Tommy sergeant-major. 'That's for our tea. For you, chummy, we've kept a nice bit of bull.'

   He liked the Germans better than he did the French; but for all that, if he went down the back streets of a night, it was with three or four British Tommies, in case the Jerries weren't as friendly as they made out.

5. 5

   Variant of tommy boyEllipsis of tommy boy.

Forms

plural

Tommies