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alleycat; alley cat
noun- a sexually promiscuous person, especially a woman UK, 1926
- e goes on the prowl each night / Like an alley cat / Looking for • some new delight / Like an alley cat / She can’t trust him out of sight[.] — Jack Harlen, The Alley Cat Song, 1963
- a young person who idles on a street corner US
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 21, 1945
- [T]he elderly homeless and alley cats slowly circle the vegetable stalls for handouts from grocers’ assistants at closing time. — Alix Shulman, On the Stroll, p. 4, 1981
- a person who survives on begged or stolen pickings GUYANA
- — Richard Allsopp, Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, p. 24, 1996
- an (illegal) urban race for bicyclists CANADA
Originally in exclusive use by cycle-couriers, then into police vocabulary and now the wider cycling community. - [W]hich has been both a full alley-cat race, and a figure-8 ice race on Toronto Island, — ont.bicycle, 12 December 2000
- — Nike, 2005
- [T]his flyer is for an alley cat race going on in Washington D.C. — buyafixie.com, 27 October 2010
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