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cat rack noun a game concession in a carnival in which a player throws balls at stuffed cats on a platform or fence US, 1960- This is the cat rack, with three stuffed cats just waiting to be knocked over. Even Bobby Feller couldn’t win this one when it’s rigged. — Charles Hamilton, Men of the Underworld, p. 178, 1952
- — American Speech, p. 308–309, December 1960: “Carnival talk”
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 47, 1981
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