two old cat

[ toouh-kat ]

nounGames.
  1. one old cat played with two batters.

Origin of two old cat

1
An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

Words Nearby two old cat

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How to use two old cat in a sentence

  • Robin taught me a kind of back-yard, two-old-cat cricket with a bat fashioned by his own big hands.

    Miss Primrose | Roy Rolfe Gilson
  • There were two varieties of the game, the first called "one-old-cat," or one-cornered-cat, and the other "two-old-cat."

    Base-Ball | John M. Ward
  • Or the A B C class playing two-old-cat, after a league game of extra innings; right you are, my hearty!

    The Lost City | Joseph E. Badger, Jr.