TomKat

English

Etymology

Blend of Tom +‎ Katie, as a play on tomcat.

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Proper noun

TomKat

1. (slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, together from 2005 to 2012.
   • 2006 April 19, Buck Wolf, “Multimillion-Dollar Bounty on TomKat Baby Photo”, in ABC News:

     Right now, celebrity photographers are in a frenzy trying to wrangle an image of TomKat's kitten.

   • 2006 December 5, “Katie welcomes Victoria to the neighbourhood”, in Daily Mail:

     The Beckhams were among several A-lister guests invited to the TomKat wedding at a castle in Italy last month.

   • 2012 July 4, Leslie Miller, “Katie Holmes breaks silence after divorce announcement”, in ABC 7:

     With her bodyguard tailing closely, Holmes uttered her first public words since the TomKat split, telling the paper, "I'm all right, thank you."

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:TomKat.

Anagrams

• matkot