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cat shot noun a take-off from an aircraft carrier assisted by a catapult US Vietnam war usage.- What had it been? A “cold-cat” shot, whatever that was, from a carrier. — Hank Searls, The Big X, p. 221, 1959
- Its squadrons of Phantoms and A-6 Intruders practiced “cat shots” (catapulted takeoffs) and landings all day long. — James W. Canan, The Superwarriors, p. 36, 1975
- — American Speech, p. 385, Winter 1991: “Among the new words”
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