tomcat
Americannoun
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a male cat.
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Slang. a woman-chaser.
verb (used without object)
Etymology
Origin of tomcat
1750–60; Tom + cat ( def. )
Example Sentences
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The Cats Protection charity said the family in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, was also being watched over by a tomcat, which was "very unusual".
From BBC ● May 18, 2021
He’s finely embodied by Will Chase, as dashing tomcat Fred Graham, who has disappointed O’Hara’s pouting Lilli Vanessi one time too many.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2019
A childhood friend compared him to “a tomcat, constantly tense and grumpy”; later in life he acquired the nickname Gniewosz, which blended his name with the Polish word for “anger.”
From The New Yorker ● May 22, 2017
I remember feeling like a mouse that had found the tiniest hole for escape while a giant tomcat loomed.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2012
The Thousand began to close in—stoats, a fox, even a tomcat from some farm or other.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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