(ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites
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male cat
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male turkey
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Tom \Tom\, n. The knave of trumps at gleek. [Obs.]
Tom \Tom\, n. 1. A familiar contraction of {Thomas}, a proper name of a man. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. The male of certain animals; -- often used adjectively or in composition; as, tom turkey, tomcat, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The loud, rattling sound of the last gobble and the hissing noise of dragging wing tips told him the tom was close.
"Someone said, and I guess it's true, that `What you were really playing in that picture was a peeping tom,"' the 80-year-old Stewart said. "That's exactly what I was doing.