cat
cat
1. noun, old-fashioned A spiteful, gossipy woman. Oh, don't listen to a thing Mrs. Studebaker says. That crazy old cat just likes to put her nose into other people's business and cause trouble.
2. noun, dated slang A man. A: "You ever hear of Tom Michelson?" B: "The cat who runs the Double Dice bar over on Santa Monica? Yeah, I've heard of him"
3. verb, dated slang To pursue promiscuous sexual intercourse or activity; to look for sexual partners. She started to suspect that her husband was out catting around while she was at home looking after the kids.
4. verb, dated slang To retch or vomit. Primarily heard in UK. Something I ate must not have agreed with my stomach, because I started catting everything up about an hour later. The smell of the substance is enough to make you cat.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
cat
1. n. a fellow; a guy; a dude. Now, this cat wants to borrow some money from me. What should I do?
2. in. to empty one’s stomach; to vomit. Looks like somebody catted in the bushes.
3. n. a gossipy woman. Mary can be such a cat, you know.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- (as) black as a stack of black cats
- (as) busy as a cat on a hot tin roof
- (as) conceited as a barber's cat
- (as) nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
- (Has the) cat got your tongue?
- (well,) dog my cats
- a cat can look at a king
- a cat has nine lives
- a cat in gloves catches no mice
- a cat may look at a king
- a cat nap
- a cat on a hot tin roof
- a dead cat bounce
- a dead cat on the line
- a face like a cat's arse
- a fat cat
- a kick at the cat
- all cats are gray after dark/at night
- all cats are gray at night
- all cats are gray by night
- all cats are gray in the dark
- all cats are grey in the dark
- alley cat
- as much chance as a wax cat in hell
- be grinning like a Cheshire cat
- be like a cat on a hot tin roof
- be like a cat on hot bricks
- be like herding cats
- be the cat's whiskers
- bell the cat
- bell the cat, who will
- black as a skillet
- busy as a beaver
- cat
- cat and mouse
- cat and mouse, game of/to play
- cat around
- cat can look at a king
- cat got one's tongue
- cat got your tongue, has the
- Cat got your tongue?
- cat has nine lives
- cat ice
- cat in gloves catches no mice
- cat in the meal-tub
- cat in the pan
- cat in the sack
- cat on a hot tin roof
- cat on a hot tin roof, like a
- cat that swallowed the canary, (look) like the
- cat-and-dog life
- cat-and-mouse game
- catcall
- cats and dogs
- cat's claw
- cat's cradle
- cat's pajamas
- cat's paw
- cat's paw, (be made) a
- cat-soup
- cat's-paw
- Cheshire cat
- conceited as a barber's cat
- cool cat
- curiosity killed the cat
- dead cat bounce
- dead cat on the line
- don't make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you
- emotional support dog/cat/etc.
- enough to make a cat laugh
- faster than a cat lapping chain lightning
- fat cat
- fat-cat
- feel as if a cat has kittened in (one's) mouth
- fight like cat and dog
- fight like Kilkenny cats
- fix
- fraidy cat
- get catcalled
- grin like a Cheshire cat
- has the cat got your tongue?
- have other cats to whip
- herd cats
- higher than a cat's back
- it's raining cats and dogs
- It's raining pitchforks
- keep no more cats than can catch mice
- lead a cat and dog life
- let the cat out of the bag
- let the cat out of the bag, to
- like a cat in a strange garret
- like a cat on a hot tin roof
- like a cat on hot bricks
- like a scalded cat
- like herding cats
- like something the cat brought in
- like something the cat brought/dragged in
- like something the cat dragged in
- like the cat that got the cream
- like the cat that got, stole, etc. the cream
- like the cat that stole the cream
- like the cat that's got the cream
- live under the cat's foot
- Look at what the cat dragged in!
- look like something the cat brought in
- look like something the cat dragged in
- look like the cat dragged in
- look like the cat that ate the canary
- look like the cat that swallowed the canary
- Look what the cat dragged in!
- look what the cat('s) dragged in
- look what the cat's dragged in
- mad enough to kick a cat
- more than one way to skin a cat
- more than one way to skin a cat, there's
- no room to swing a cat
- not a cat in hell's chance
- not enough room to swing a cat
- not have a cat in hell's chance
- pace around hot porridge like a cat
- painted cat
- play cat and mouse
- play cat and mouse with
- purr like a cat
- put (an animal) down
- put (one) out of (something or some place)
- put down (an animal)
- put the cat among the pigeons
- put the cat amongst the pigeons
- put/set the cat among the pigeons
- rain cats and dogs
- raining cats and dogs, it's
- scaredy-cat
- see which way the cat jumps
- set the cat among the pigeons
- she's the cat's mother
- shoot the cat
- sling out
- sling the cat
- smile like a Cheshire cat
- smiling like a Cheshire cat
- that cat won't jump
- the cat has got someone's tongue
- the cat is out of the bag
- the cat that ate the canary
- the cat that swallowed the canary
- the cat would eat fish, but would not wet her feet
- the cat's got (one's) tongue
- the cat's meow
- the cat's pajamas
- the cat's whiskers
- the cat's whiskers/pyjamas
- there are many ways to skin a cat
- there's more than one way to skin a cat
- throw the cat among the pigeons
- tomcat
- turn the cat in the pan
- want to know the ins-and-outs of a cat's arse
- wanton kittens make sober cats
- weak as a kitten
- well, dog my cats
- when the cat's away
- when the cat's away (the mice will play)
- when the cat's away the mice will play
- when the cat's away, the mice will play
- whip the cat
- who will bell the cat
- Who's she, the cat's mother?
- who's she—the cat's mother?