toc emma
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Telecommunications abbreviation of TM.
Noun
[edit]toc emma (plural toc emmas)
- (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.