tom-tom

See also: tomtom, TomTom, and Appendix:Variations of "tom"

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Noun

tom-tom (plural tom-toms)

  1. (onomatopoeia) A small joined pair of drums, beaten with the hands.
    • 1926, H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu:
      It was voodoo, apparently, but voodoo of a more terrible sort than they had ever known; and some of their women and children had disappeared since the malevolent tom-tom had begun its incessant beating far within the black haunted woods where no dweller ventured.
  2. (usually as a pair) Any cylindrical drum, with no snare; part of a drum kit.

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