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The Tom Collins is a Collins cocktail made from gin, lemon juice, sugar, and carbonated water. First memorialized in writing in 1876 by Jerry Thomas, "the father of American mixology", this "gin and sparkling lemonade" drink is typically served in a Collins glass over ice.
A Tom Collins is an alcoholic cocktail made with gin and other mixers.
Tom Collins may also refer to:
- Joseph Furphy (1843–1912), Australian author who mostly wrote under the pseudonym Tom Collins
- Tom Collins (athlete), Irish athlete who held the 5 mile world's record
- Tom Collins (Rent character), character in the rock musical Rent
- Tom Collins (rugby) (1895–1957), rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1920s for Wales (RU), Mountain Ash, and Hull (RL)
- Tom Francis Collins (1886–1907), convicted murderer
- Tom Collins (footballer) (1882–1929), Scottish international footballer who played for Heart of Midlothian, Bathgate, East Fife and Tottenham Hotspur
- Tom Collins (dual player) (died 2008), dual player from County Kerry, Ireland
- Tom Collins (boxer) (born 1955), British boxer
- Tom Collins, long-time producer of the ice show Champions on Ice
- Tom Collins, Milwaukee Brewers broadcaster in the 1970s
- Tom Collins (producer) (born 1942), American country music producer of Ronnie Milsap, Barbara Mandrell, & others
Tom Collins was a dual player from County Kerry, Ireland. He played hurling with Kerry and Kilmoyley and football with Kerry and St Brendans.
. Thomas J. "Tom" Collins was an Irish born athlete who became a distance runner after immigrating to the United States. He competed for the Xavier Athletic Club and the Irish American Athletic Club.
In 1906 Collins won the Amateur Athletic Union junior National cross country championships.
In 1908, in what The New York Times called "the greatest battle for athletic supremacy in the history of indoor track and field sports," Collins broke the world's record for the 5 mile distance at the indoor National championships of the A.A.U., held at Madison Square Garden, with a time of 25 minutes and 19.4 seconds. He lowered the record set by E.C. Carter of 25 minutes 23.6 seconds, which was set in 1887, and had stood for 21 years.
In 1910, in front of a crowd of more than 8,000 spectators at the field day of the Galway Athletic Club held at Celtic Park, Queens, New York, "the most interesting and probably best race of the day was seen in the four-mile handicap, which had Tom Collins of the Irish (American Athletic Club) and Eddie Fitzgerald of the New York Athletic Club" starting from scratch. "A baker's dozen of aspiring distance men were sent out on marks up to 300 yards," but Collins still came up victorious, beating Fitzgerald who came in 2nd, by a distance of 15 yards, with a time of 20 minutes and 40 seconds.
Tom Collins (16 April 1882 – July 1929) was a professional footballer who played for Heart of Midlothian, Bathgate, East Fife and Tottenham Hotspur.
The full back transferred to Tottenham from Hearts in 1910 for a fee of £825. Collins made a total of 122 appearances in all competitions and scored a solitary goal for the club between 1910 and 1915.
Thomas "Tom" John Collins (14 August 1895 — 8 April 1957 (aged 61)) born in Merthyr Tydfil, was a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1920s, playing representative level rugby union (RU) for Wales, and at club level for Mountain Ash RFC, as a Centre, i.e. number 12 or 13, and playing club level rugby league (RL) for Hull, he died in Mountain Ash.
Tom Collins (born 1 July 1955) is British former boxer who held the British and European light heavyweight titles and fought for three world titles.
Tom Collins (born 3 July 1994) is an English rugby union player who currently plays for Aviva Premiership side Northampton Saints. Collins typically plays on the wing.
After an impressive 2014/2015 season, Collins was made the LV Breakthrough Player of the Year.
Tom Collins (born Bernie Tom Collins on May 30, 1942) is an American music producer and publisher in Nashville, Tennessee who has received three CMA Awards as Producer of the Year, and seven Grammy nominations. He produced a steady stream of country music hits over a 30-year span from artists including Ronnie Milsap, Barbara Mandrell, Sylvia, Tom T. Hall, Jim Ed Brown, James Galway, Marie Osmond, and Steve Wariner. Collins served as Chairman of the Board of the CMA in 1979 and 1980.
In 1982 alone, Collins produced four number one country hits: " Nobody" (Sylvia); " I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World" and " Any Day Now" (Ronnie Milsap); and " 'Till You're Gone" (Barbara Mandrell). His publishing Company, Tom Collins Music, received BMI's Robert J. Burton Award in 1983 for "Most Performed Song of the Year", " Nobody", by Sylvia. During the period from 1970 to 1990, Collins' catalog holdings grew to make him one of Nashville's most successful independent producers.
Usage examples of "tom collins".
Johnny Goodner sat in a chair in the stern with his feet on another chair and a Tom Collins in his right hand and a long, green Mexican chile pepper in his left.
At a quarter to nine, when the last arrival had been ushered in, Bernard Daumery and Ward Roper had nothing on their tables but their napkins, Cynthia had Scotch and water, Demarest a Tom Collins, and Polly Zarella a glass and a botde of Tokaji Essencia.
She wanted Thousand Island dressing, sirloin steak rare, baked potato with cheese mixed in, asparagus tips with hollandaise sauce, and a Tom Collins in a tall glass to start everything off.
Fortunately for him, the butler wheeled in a tea wagon and Double-O mixed a Tom Collins for Connie and a Scotch and water for the professor.
Just as it struck seven bells, Troubridge opened the ball, setting to half-a-dozen of the Spaniards, and making them reel 'Tom Collins,' whether or no.
Agnes added this stop to her route at the request of Reverend Tom Collins, the local Baptist minister whose folks unthinkingly gave him the name of a cocktail.
Then, abruptly, as though I were being invisibly policed through small apertures in the wall, I began to open cabinet and refrigerator doors, looking for Tom Collins ingredients.
Tori went to the wet bar along one wall, fixed him a Tom Collins without asking him what he wanted.
Milton he puts this music, and they drink Tom Collins and sometimes they are, you know, dancing, one on one, men together with the women.
Since Demarest's requirement was another Tom Collins it took a little time, but Polly Zarella took none at all since she had shown herself capable of pouring the Tokay herself.
At a quarter to nine, when the last arrival had been ushered in, Bernard Daumery and Ward Roper had nothing on their tables but their napkins, Cynthia had Scotch and water, Demarest a Tom Collins, and Polly Zarella a glass and a bottle of Tokaji Essencia.
Murdoch could get it back into the can, it run down to the end there, and there was a felly sitting drinking a Tom Collins and minding his own business.
It boiled the Tom Collins right over the side of the glass so it made a mark on Gavagan's varnish.