tommy

Meanings

Plural: tommies

Noun

Bread or breadlike foodstuff, generally a penny roll.
The supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance.
A truck, or barter; the exchange of labour for goods instead of money; the scrip by which such exchange occurs.
A tommy bar.
Short for Tommy gun

Verb

To pay (employees) according to the truck system, with goods instead of money.

Origin / Etymology

Generally agreed to have come from appellativization of Tommy in most senses, but the historical details are apparently largely unknown, including whether such an evolution happened several times (with one sense being independent of another).

Scrabble Score: 12

tommy is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
tommy is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
tommy is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

tommy is a valid Words With Friends word