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TNT

noun

Meaning

  1. An illegal immigrant.
  2. Abbreviation of trinitrotoluene (an explosive substance used in blasting)
  3. Dynamite or any weak explosive.
  4. Initialism of Turner Network Television, a U.S. television channel.

Etymology / origin

All senses by acronymy or initialism formation or by metonymic relation thereto. The third sense is an initialism of Tagalog tago nang tago (literally “hide and hide”).

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