tomcat

tomcat

1. noun A promiscuous, sexually active man. He had a reputation during college as something of a tomcat, always on the prowl for someone to sleep with. I'm not some tomcat, Jane. I'm looking for real and lasting love.
2. verb Of a man, to be active with or pursue many different sexual partners. I did enough tomcatting when I was younger. I'm ready to settle down and start a family now. He's ruined plenty of potential relationships with the way he tomcats around.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

tomcat

1. n. a sexually active male; a stud. Old Fred’s getting to be quite a tomcat.
2. in. [for a man] to prowl around searching for sex. Harry was out tomcatting again last night.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • alley cat
  • bummer
  • studly
  • scank
  • skank
  • high
  • high, wide, and handsome
  • angling
References in periodicals archive
Thanks to the standardised aliquoting process it features, Hologic's new Tomcat instrument accommodates multiple sample types concurrently and is able to continuously load and unload samples and consumables.
All known bugs reported in previous versions of Tomcat have been fixed in v7.0.
Because of rough seas and an early turn signaled by a yellow shirt to the Tomcat pilot, I was blown several yards across the flight deck, and my head hit a C-2 Greyhound that had both props turning.
"She said Victoria and David liked to sponsor the Tomcat Trikes and that Iona had been chosen to receive one.
It's a big, intimidating airplane," said Fedler, who still has fond memories of working on the Tomcat. "Everything's computerized on the F/A-18.
"The Tomcat helped maintain freedom and democracy around the world," said Aviation Support Equipment Technician 2nd Class Christopher Kaelin, a support equipment maintainer with Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Department (AIMD).
PZL's construction of the transmitter bay access panel on the Tomcat's fuselage is the first time a foreign company has contributed to the aircraft's structure.
Also supplied is the Jakarta Tomcat software module to enable Java server capabilities with both Java servlets and JSP (Java server pages).
No sooner had they fallen asleep than a big tomcat snuck up on them.
Here, the civilized Freddy learns of a tribe of endangered field hamsters, and places his own life in jeopardy when he joins with a wise tomcat and a pair of guinea pig poets/opera singers to rescue fellow rodents.
Doan La's Dragon of Love brought down the house with its portrait of an Asian tomcat who falls for a black woman and gets more than he bargained for.
I was scheduled for my fifth flight in the FRS and my first time flying form with another Tomcat. My first four flights had gone well, and, being the salty FRS student I now was, I figured flying form is the same--regardless of the aircraft type.
These environments include The Jakarta Tomcat project from the Apache Software Foundation, Microsoft integration tools and the .Net development environment.
The application server brings together ASF's Tomcat and Axis, OpenEJB and ActiveMQ from Codehaus, JOTM and ASM from ObjectWeb, CGLIB and MX4J from SourceForge, and Mortbay's Jetty.
The catalogue price for six plants - one each of Vicky, Evka, Tomcat, Mexica Tom, Katrine and Apricot - is pounds 9.90.