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tommy cookers

tommy cookers is the plural of tommy cooker.

Meaning of tommy cooker

Noun

tommy cooker (plural tommy cookers)

  1. (archaic) A portable stove issued to British soldiers during World War I and II.
  2. (archaic, slang) 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.

Questions about tommy cookers

What is tommy cookers the plural of?
Tommy cookers is the plural of tommy cooker.

Words near tommy cookers in the dictionary

  1. tommy boy
  2. tommy boys
  3. tommy cod
  4. Tommy come tickle me
  5. tommy cooker
  6. tommy cookers
  7. Tommy Dodd
  8. Tommy Dodds
  9. tommy gun
  10. tommy gunner
  11. tommy gunners

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