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tom-tom Tom , Tom male personal forename.
Tom and Jerry names of the two chief characters in Egan's Life in London, 1821, and its continuation, 1828; whence in var… Jack , jack1 / jak/ • n. 1. a device for lifting heavy objects, esp. one for raising the axle of a motor vehicle off the ground. 2. a playing card bearing a… Bad , bad / bad/ • adj. (worse / wərs/ ; worst / wərst/ ) 1. of poor quality; inferior or defective: a bad diet. ∎ (of a person) not able to do something w… Uncle Tom , Uncle To m is associated with negative, self-denigrating attributes. An Uncle Tom is a black person who is submissive, docile, self-effacing, a race… jack-in-the-pulpit , jack-in-the-pul·pit • n. any of several small plants of the arum family, in particular three North American species (genus Arisaema) with a green or…
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