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Famous rock opera
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tommy
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tommy is a 1972 album by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Measham , of arrangements by Wil Malone . The project was conceived by Lou Reizner , initially with Rod Stewart singing Roger Daltrey 's main role. As Pete Townshend and Daltrey became ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"British soldier," 1884, from Thomas Atkins, since 1815 the typical sample name for filling in army forms. Tommy gun (1929) is short for Thompson gun (see Thompson ). Soon extended to other types of sub-machine gun, especially those favored by the mob.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context UK slang obsolete English) bread, generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workman as their daily allowance 2 (context UK slang obsolete English) A truck, or barter; the exchange of labour for goods instead of money.
Usage examples of tommy.
Indian made Tommy acutely aware of signs that foretold his great though as yet unspecified-destiny.
The Creek sisters were eager to depart, wasting little time in packing Tommy into the bed of the pickup, fussing over him with auntly concern.
Tommy, whose bandanna kept his hair from blowing into his eyes, was attaching the Polaroid to the telephoto.
There was even one of Maggie, looking like a bosomy Wonder Woman in a fright wig, waving the Stars and Stripes in one hand and a Tommy gun in the other.
I would return Bossy to her home territory and look in the traveling trunk or any other place where I might find letters or diaries to take to Tommy tomorrow.
Tommy McCulloch lives past Golf Road at the other end of the village from Cheadle House, with his wife, Christeen.
With Sonny in jail, the others were keeping the action to a minimum -- even though Tommy, in his quiet, disaffiliated sort of way, was running the show pretty well.
We have Murder Most Foul: to whit, Mr Dumpty, Boy Blue, Madame Goose, Wibbly, Jack Spratt and now Tommy Tucker.
If Tommy were such an eejit as to get in with this kind of a crowd, maybe the safest place for him was in gaol.
Spur, in a paralyzing depression of unknown etiology, lying on Tommy D.
One of them, Lieutenant Colonel Franz Herber, a former police officer and a convinced Nazi, had fetched some Tommy guns and ammunition from the arsenal of Spandau, and these were secreted on the second floor.
Tommy took out first a sealed envelope rolled up lengthways with an elastic band round it.
Soon, he and Tommy were heading across the flats, over the spinifex grass and through the mulga trees in search of Daisy, who was with her family at the camp.
But at that oment I was confronted with another Tommy, who was actually yelling that I must not go near that man, and I must not go near the eper colony.
Sara and Ops and Tommy and the chief were hunched over the chart table, staring at the Transas screen as Sara right-clicked and dragged and dropped them all the way up the Aleutian Chain and back down again.