... by titled undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge, and, by1755, was university slang for a person of rank and title and hencedown the social scale to ‘swell’ and ‘nob’. In 1865 there was amusic ... acting obsequiously and in a servilemanner US, 1967Tom adjective shoddy, inferior US, 1989Tom and Dick; Tom, Harry and Dick; Harry, Tom and Dick;Tom Harryadjective sick. Rhyming slang UK, 1954tomato ... US, 1972 TL C noun tender, loving care US, 1973 TM noun 1 a commerically rolled cigarette. A shortened form ofTAILOR- MADE US, 1976 . 2 transcendental meditation US, 1979 TMB doctors’ shorthand...