Definitions

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  • noun meat from a cat
  • noun catfood consisting of meat
  • noun someone who has been badly beaten

Etymologies

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cat +‎ meat

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Examples

  • Steven said ... my grandmother actually once ate cat tuna voluntarily ... at least we think she knew what she was doing. i mean, the can had a picture of a cat on it. i guess she might have thought she was eating catmeat.

    Fancy Feast? Not exactly. Jessica Hagy 2007

  • And given, finally, the spectacle of an unusually intelligent young man, still almost fully in possession of the standard engineer's education of his time, desperately sitting through this barrage of unchangingly insignificant news stories, as daily and as interchangeable as a dish of catmeat, in the sole hope of hearing something which might lead him to a job.

    And all the Stars a Stage Blish, James 1960

  • The afternoon was well advanced when, as half through a dream, John Steele heard the rude jingling of a bell, -- the catmeat man, or the milkman, drowsily he told himself.

    Half A Chance Frederic S. Isham

  • _ And after that all the other women looked like a dime's worth of catmeat.

    Subspace Survivors H. R. van [Illustrator] Dongen 1927

  • The only difference between eating "chicken, rabbit or pigeon" and eating catmeat is one of subjective sentimentality.

    Guardian Online 2010

  • Jews are "scum, rats, pigs, monkeys" and that uncovered women are catmeat asking to be raped he would have never had a problem.

    Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami 2010

  • Hilaly's catmeat comments were just painful to watch, as were the attitudes expressed by other more conservative Muslims on the show.

    Crikey » Canberra Calling 2008

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  • Third definition is...wow!

    June 16, 2022