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OLD TOM

Specialty Definition: OLD TOM

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Old Tom Cordial gin. Thomas Norris, one of the men employed in Messrs. Hodges' distillery, opened a gin palace in Great Russell Street, Covenant Garden, and called the gin concocted by Thomas Chamberlain, one of the firm of Hodges, "Old Tom," in compliment to his former master. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Modern Usage: OLD TOM

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Movie/TV Titles

Old Tom (2001)

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Commercial Usage: OLD TOM

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Books

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Use in Literature: OLD TOM

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Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Old Tom Joad stood in the truck bed and he was nailing on the top rails of the truck sides.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: OLD TOM

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

morris old tom

6

old tom

6
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Anagrams: OLD TOM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-l-m-o-o-t"

-1 letter: molto.

-2 letters: dolt, doom, loom, loot, mold, molt, mood, mool, moot, told, tool, toom.

-3 letters: dol, dom, dot, loo, lot, mod, mol, moo, mot, old, oot, tod, tom, too.

-4 letters: do, lo, mo, od, om, to.

 Words containing the letters "d-l-m-o-o-t"
 

+2 letters: dolomite, hoteldom.

 

+3 letters: dolomites, dolomitic, hoteldoms, locomoted, loudmouth, modulator, stomodeal.

 

+4 letters: bottomland, complotted, demolition, dolomitize, loudmouths, modulation, modulators, modulatory, outbloomed, stomodaeal.

 

+5 letters: amontillado, automobiled, bloodstream, bottomlands, condylomata, demodulator, demolitions, dermatology, dolomitized, dolomitizes, foulmouthed, homologated, lobotomised, lobotomized, loudmouthed, meteoroidal, methodology, modulations, moonlighted, motorcycled, sodomitical, stylopodium.

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Alternative Orthography: OLD TOM


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 4C 44      54 4F 4D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01001100 01000100 00100000 01010100 01001111 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#76 &#68 &#32 &#84 &#79 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 004C 0044      0054 004F 004D

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4946382544947

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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