kitty
noun
a kitten.
kitty
1 American
[kit-ee]
/ ˈkɪt i /
kitty
2
American
[kit-ee]
/ ˈkɪt i /
noun
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kitties
plural
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a pool or reserve of money, often collected from a number of persons or sources and designated for a particular purpose specified by the contributors.
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Cards.
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a pool into which players in a game put a certain amount of their winnings for some special purpose, as to pay for refreshments.
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the pot, or a special pot, for the collection of forfeits or payments for certain high hands.
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Kitty
3
American
[kit-ee]
/ ˈkɪt i /
noun
kitty
1
British
/ ˈkɪtɪ /
noun
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the pool of bets in certain gambling games
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any shared fund of money, etc
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(in bowls) the jack
kitty
2
British
/ ˈkɪtɪ /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of kitty1
First recorded in 1710–20; kitt(en) + -y 2
Origin of kitty2
Example Sentences
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She animatedly talked to a teal spinning cat track toy, while polydactyl-toed kitty Orbitz lounged behind her in a basket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
"I think in a lot of cases, the money's all being pooled together as one household kitty to help meet whatever expenses the disabled child has," he said.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026
“I would walk around with this little kitty in my hand, and of course people would look at it, like what is that?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
Spending cash from the kitty is clean, clear and less dangerous if things go wrong.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2025
It would be for just a week or two, Mom and Dad assured her, a month at the most, while they got a kitty together and looked for a new place.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
Wisk got its start as a joint venture between Boeing and Google co-founder Larry Page’s Kitty Hawk Corp. and has flown six generations of electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, or eVTOL.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Wisk launched in 2019 as a joint venture between Boeing and Google co-founder Larry Page’s Kitty Hawk Corp., but the technology behind it had been under development for more than a decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The shuttered Hello Kitty experiment animated yet another challenge in scaling raves across Dave & Buster’s many outposts: the sense that these parties are once-in-a-lifetime events that can’t be missed.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
Kitty Colley, representing Brunning, had told the hearing her client was of "good character".
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
“Washerwoman?” repeated Aunt Kitty, her body coming to a complete stop on the sidewalk.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
These rival kitties were leopard cats, small wild cats with leopard-like spots, that lived in human settlements in China for around 3,500 years.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025
“My original inspiration was to match the furniture to the kitties so I don’t see their cat hair,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025
The inhaled air is trapped on the olfactory epithelium and/or the Jacobson’s organ, giving kitties an extra chance to detect scent molecules.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 2, 2024
Cats can be solitary creatures, but they often form friendships with fellow kitties in people’s homes or on the street; feral cats can live in colonies of thousands, sometimes taking over entire islands.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 25, 2023
The kitties were between us and Nergal's crew, patrolling.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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