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tomahawk

[tom-uh-hawk] / ˈtɒm əˌhɔk /
NOUN
ax/axe
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NOUN
hatchet
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Hundreds of pounds of caviar, black truffle, sushi and tomahawk steak have been shipped to Hollywood for the traditional lavish Oscars after-party this Sunday.

From Barron's Mar. 11, 2026

Scott Baird, of the storied Starlite bar atop the Beacon Grand Hotel in San Francisco, suggests you think of premium cocktails as “the tomahawk rib-eye of the cocktail world.”

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 12, 2026

For eight breathtaking seasons, LeBron James has poured his soul into pleasing a passionate fan base such that he still fills Crypto.com Arena with joy and light and tomahawk dunks at age 41.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 17, 2026

A copy of her post, which showed a tomahawk steak, red wine and a salad, was shared with the Eastern Daily Press.

From BBC Jun. 20, 2025

Unsure, Palmer stared back—and the hurricane swirled into the kitchen, Mutto screaming and laughing around the table, Beans waving the muskrat like a tomahawk.

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli

It displays a cartoon avatar of Jenkins, nicknamed Skullet, and a logo depicting crossed tomahawks below a silhouette of the Capitol building.

From Seattle Times Oct. 6, 2023

It once manufactured tourist items such as tomahawks and bows and arrows, which it sold to the Braves to offer at souvenir stands.

From Washington Post Oct. 28, 2021

Following Helsley's complaint, the Braves stopped distributing the red foam tomahawks used by fans doing the chop during the series.

From Fox News Oct. 28, 2021

“He seems so full of joy. He’s big, and I like to imagine he does stuff to make himself bigger, but not gym stuff … more like throwing tomahawks or fighting sharks,” she says.

From The Guardian Jun. 26, 2020

They then attempted to cut it down with their tomahawks, but with no better success.

From Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent by J. (Jesse) Clement

Gallen left another pitch up in the fourth and Albies tomahawked it out to right, tying it at 3.

From Washington Times Jun. 5, 2023

"He got the outs. Calhoun just tomahawked that ball. It’s why it’s the big leagues."

From Fox News Apr. 25, 2021

I’m telling you, it cut a yard, and it was tomahawked.

From Golf Digest Mar. 24, 2020

When his forward progress was halted by Perkins’s mighty right arm to his chest, Griffin tomahawked the ball into the basket.

From New York Times Feb. 4, 2012

He finally elected not to be tomahawked, and came out of his shirt.

From Last Words by Stephen Crane

Battles with Nick Faldo, tomahawking a club into a lake, claiming Tiger Woods intentionally tried to distract him mid-swing?

From Golf Digest Aug. 6, 2019

Next time up the floor, Griffin attacked the basket, intent on tomahawking a one-handed dunk over Nene.

From Washington Post Mar. 21, 2015

Croker openly said that he expected to lose his pension very shortly, and, being wishful to make himself a literary position before that event happened, he had begun by "tomahawking Miss Martineau."

From Harriet Martineau by Florence Fenwick Miller

His head throbbed from the tomahawking, but his wits were still in working order, and when asked by Satanta where he had been, he replied that he had been out searching for "whoa-haws."

From Last of the Great Scouts : the life story of Col. William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill" as told by his sister by Helen Cody Wetmore

“Fool!” exclaimed Magadar, scarce able to refrain from tomahawking the brave in his wrath—“launch the canoes and give chase.”

From The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne




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