tom
Definitions
Food
- Boiled or simmered in water
Slang
- noun jewellery. A piece of underworld rhyming slang, from tomfoolery.
- noun a prostitute. In police jargon and in the slang of the underworld and prison this has been a standard term since the 1940s. It derives from a 19th-century use of the nickname Tom to denote a masculine, assertive or aggressive streetwalker.
- verb to work as a prostitute. A fairly rare extension of the noun sense.
