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Tommy
"British soldier," 1884, from
Thomas Atkins,
since 1815 the sample name for filling in army forms.
Tommy gun
(1929) is short for
Thompson gun
(see
Thompson
). Soon extended to other types of sub-machine gun, especially those favored by the mob.
