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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He had traveled out with his wife and mother-in-law from the town of Vasylivka, just across the front line, with a few belongings in plastic bags and their ginger tomcat in a pet basket.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
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
Felis up: A particularly aggressive species of orange tomcat.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 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
“All right,” I said, “but if he gets after a tomcat, we’ll probably find him way over in Arkansas somewhere.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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