toc emma

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Telecommunications abbreviation of TM.

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toc emma (plural toc emmas)

  1. (military slang, now historical) Trench mortar. [from 20th c.]
    • 1928, RC Sherriff, Journey's End:
      After dark the toch-emmas are going to break the Boche wire and we'll cut a passage in ours.
    • 2010, Rebecca Wilby, In Different Skies, page 180:
      'Field artillery?' 'No. Toc-emmas.' He was referring to trench-mortars.
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