A small joined pair of drums, beaten with the hands. / (usually as a pair) Any cylindrical drum, with no snare; part of a drum kit. / Alternative form of tam-tam (“a kind of flat gong”)

To play the tom-tom (pair of drums).

plural of tom-tom

present participle of tom-tom

simple past tense and past participle of tom-tom

The intact male of the domesticated cat. / The male of the turkey. / The male of the orangutan. / The male of certain other animals. / (Britain, slang) A female prostitute. / (US, slang) A lesbian.

(Britain, greengrocers' slang) A tomato (the fruit).

(Cockney rhyming slang) jewellery

(intransitive, derogatory, of a black person) To act in an obsequiously servile manner toward white authority.

(nautical) To dig out a hole below the hatch cover of a bulker and fill it with cargo or weights to aid stability.