catlike

Hamill played the lead as Colonel Christopher “Maverick” Blair, the commander of a space fighter squadron in the final days of an enduring war against the Kilrathi, an alien race of catlike bipeds for whom war and conquest is sport.

So, like real pumas, the women who waited to see are just tiptoeing away, catlike, from the battle.

To all appearances, the green-eyed lady was not at home—not unless those catlike eyes of hers were capable of seeing in the dark.

Burke straightened as I came forward, squatted and drove forward with catlike speed.