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. )
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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
They find themselves competing for McBurney’s favor as he sets about manipulating their vanities and insecurities, smiling like a tomcat who has stumbled into a cage full of canaries.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2017
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 was hopping all over the place and making more racket than a tomcat with his tail caught in a mouse trap.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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