Definition of tommies Tommies
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What does tommies mean?
Wiktionary 
- tommies (Noun)
Plural of Tommy.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- tommy (n.)
Bread, -- generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance. - tommy (n.)
A truck, or barter; the exchange of labor for goods, not money.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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tommy
tom′i, n. a penny roll, bread, provisions: the system of giving food as part wages.—v.t. to oppress by the tommy or truck-system.—ns. Tomm′y-shop, a truck-shop; Tom′-nod′dy, the puffin or sea-parrot: a fool.—Tommy Atkins, or Tomm′y, a generic name for the English private soldier.—Soft tommy, soft bread, as opposed to hard tack or sea-biscuit
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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tommy
Soft Tommy, or white Tommy; bread is so called by sailors, to distinguish it from biscuit. Brown Tommy: ammunition bread for soldiers; or brown bread given to convicts at the hulks.
