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cat verb- to stay away from home overnight, prowling for sin US
From the alleycat as a role model for behaviour. - “But you was away?” “Catting out. I holed up with a rich lady for a while.” — Hal Ellson, Duke, p. 154, 1949
- The older guys had been doing something called “catting” for years. That catting was staying away from home all night was all I knew about the term. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 18, 1965
- He staggered into the Picket Arms to cat on Gloria and never again drew a sober breath. — Robert Deane Pharr, S.R.O., p. 396, 1971
- to pursue someone in the hopes of sexual relations US, 1946
- She was catting, getting me all bothered. — Hal Ellson, Duke, p. 112, 1949
- — Robert S. Gold, A Jazz Lexicon, p. 48, 1964
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