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Tom Tug en · NOUN

Etymology

From a stage play.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, slang) A waterman.
    • Tom Tugs were to the men of Hoccleve's time what Hansom cabmen are to modern Londoners. 1883, Cassell's Library of English Literature, page 60:

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