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tom

noun as in cat

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He had to just play kick and snare and toms because if you hit the cymbals they’d reverberate for 20 minutes.

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During concerts, Carlos Niño may set up a bass drum and a floor tom, but his percussion is far from conventional.

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The white and ginger tom cat, known as Twix, escaped from his carrier on a train traveling between Yekaterinburg and St. Petersburg on Jan. 11.

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Tiravanija’s early relational pieces — offering curry and tom ka soup, sodas and beers, grass mats and pillows for weary visitors — appeared as museums increasingly promoted the politics of multiculturalism.

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Bush offered a public assurance, saying, “this fine tom turkey, that he will not end up on anyone’s dinner table.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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