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Did you mean: Tom (river, Russia), Tom (character), Tom Glavine (baseball), tom, Nicholle Tom (Actor, Comedy/Drama), Lauren Tom, David Tom (actor), Heather Tom, Tom (first name), Logan Tom

 
Dictionary: Tom   (tŏm) pronunciation
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n. Offensive
An Uncle Tom.


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Tom (tôm), river, c.525 mi (840 km) long, rising in the Alatau range, S Siberian Russia. It flows N through the Kuznetsk Basin past Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo, and Tomsk into the Ob River. It is navigable from Novokuznetsk.

WordNet: Tom
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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: contemptuous name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites
  Synonym: Uncle Tom

 
 

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