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Webster 1913 Edition

(tŏm′tŏmˊ)

Noun.

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

tom-tom ‎(plural tom-toms)

(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.
(usually as a pair) Any cylindrical drum, with no snare; part of a drum kit.