gom, noun
/xɔm/
Derogatory. slang. Shortened form of gomtor.
1970 A. Van der Berg Informant, Pretoria, GautengThat man lying on the pavement is a real gom.
1990 R. Malan My Traitor’s Heart 35They were all goms, or rednecks — common, in my mother’s prim Victorian estimation. On Friday nights they’d get drunk, and there’d be cars with twin-cam engines and furry dashboards revving up in the road, women screaming, men cursing and once, guns going off in the air.
Shortened form of gomtor.
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