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tommy cooker

noun

Etymology

From tommy (“soldier”) + cooker.

Definitions

  1. A portable stove issued to British soldiers during World War I and II.

  2. The M4 Sherman tank, due to its likelihood to "brew up" and explode after being hit by…

    The M4 Sherman tank, due to its likelihood to "brew up" and explode after being hit by German tank fire in World War II. Little to no contemporary evidence of this definition exists.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA