Terms relating to animals.
Mammals need two genes to make the taste receptor for sugar. Studies in various cats (tigers, cheetahs and domestic cats) showed that one of these genes has mutated and no longer works.
Terms relating to people.
But, ere one rapid moon its tale has told, / He finds his prize — a cat — a slut — a scold.
A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
A street name of the drug methcathinone.
A piece of heavy machinery, such as a backhoe or bulldozer, of the Caterpillar brand. (Occasionally, loosely, any big yellow machine of the type.
Upon touring the mine, they found it to be a veritable canyon with some monstrous Cats trundling in the background.
A Catalina flying boat.
To hoist (an anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
The anchors were catted at the bows of the yacht […]
Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous.
The weather was cat, so they returned home early.
A diminutive of the female given names Catherine or Caitlin.
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From Middle English cat, catte, from Old English catt (“male cat”), catte (“female cat”), from Proto-West Germanic *kattu, from Proto-Germanic *kattuz, generally thought to be from Late Latin cattus (...
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To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
To apply the cat command to (one or more files).