Definition of TOMMY

tommy

Plural: tommies

Noun

  • A loaf of bread or a soldier (slang).
  • Bread or breadlike foodstuff, generally a penny roll.
  • The supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance.
  • A truck, or barter; the exchange of labour for goods instead of money; the scrip by which such exchange occurs.
  • A tommy bar.
  • Short for Tommy gun

Verb

  • To pay (employees) according to the truck system, with goods instead of money.

Examples

  • He needed to score big, so he tried to stretch TOMMY into ’TOMMIES’ for the plural bonus.

Origin / Etymology

Generally agreed to have come from appellativization of Tommy in most senses, but the historical details are apparently largely unknown, including whether such an evolution happened several times (with one sense being independent of another).

Scrabble Score: 12

tommy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
tommy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
tommy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

tommy: valid Words With Friends Word