cougar
Americannoun
plural
cougars,plural
cougar-
Also called mountain lion, panther, puma. a large, tawny cat, Felis concolor, of North and South America: now greatly reduced in number and endangered in some areas.
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Informal. an older woman who seeks sexual relationships with much younger men.
He's in his twenties, but he prefers cougars in their forties and fifties to young women his own age.
noun
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another name for puma
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slang a woman in her 30s or 40s who actively pursues casual sexual relationships with young men
Etymology
Origin of cougar
First recorded in 1765–75; from French couguar, from New Latin cuguacu ara, cuguacuarana, apparently a misrepresentation of either Guarani guaçu ara or Portuguese çuçuarana, suçuarana (from Tupi susuarana )
Example Sentences
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Three days before we were filming that, that was a cougar; we were going to have a live cougar.
From Los Angeles Times
A new study sheds light on the tense relationship between wolves and cougars in Yellowstone National Park.
From Science Daily
To better understand how evolution shaped these sounds, the researchers compared domestic cat meows with those of five wild cat species: African wildcat, European wildcat, jungle cat, cheetah, and cougar.
From Science Daily
Mountain lions, also called pumas, cougars, catamounts or panthers, can be found throughout North America, but now are mostly in 15 western states, according to the Mountain Lion Foundation.
From BBC
The determination, released Wednesday, is not the final say but signals a possibility that several clans of the iconic cougars will be listed under the California Endangered Species Act.
From Los Angeles Times
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