Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A male cat.
- v. Slang To be sexually active with more than one partner. Used of men.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A male cat, especially a full-grown male cat.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A male cat, especially when full grown or of large size.
WordNet 3.0
- n. male cat
Etymologies
- From a story by an anonymous author published in 1760 called The Life and Adventures of a Cat in which the male cat, then known as a ram cat, was called Tom. (Reference: Desmond Morris, Catwatching.) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The tomcat was his usual, unapproachable self, lashing his tail as if to silence her any time Layne attempted to address a comment to him.”
“I used this command to create the keystore keytool - genkey - alias tomcat - keyalg RSA - keystore/etc/tomcat6/keystore and answered the prompts”
“I am looking for the simple recipe for an aspect of the genus felis domestica, in particular that of the male of the species, commonly known as the 'tomcat'.”
“Must I log in as user 'tomcat' anytime I build an application so that the owner of the WAR file will be tomcat and thus the tomcat service will have access to the WAR file?”
“I found on another forum this command: kill -9 ` ps - aef | grep 'tomcat' | grep - v grep | awk '{print $2}' `”
“Anyway, Little Johnny loved clomping up and down the stairs in those boots, and kicked our tomcat a time or two with them, even though Big John hollered at him not to.”
“My first thought was that it was a tomcat outside my window, until I realized it was coming from inside the apartment.”
“He was the son of Chachamaru the cat and some tomcat she met.”
“Why is it that every time I see a red tomcat I think of Tiki?”
“Sure, a tomcat has to prowl, but I swear there's more out than in around these parts.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tomcat’.
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cats
alleycat, baudrons, bobcat, caracal, catamount, catamountain, cathood, catlike, cattish, cattishly, cheetah, chetah and 118 more...
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The Pain of Texting
Words that are a pain in the ass to type in on a numerical keypad on a cell phone because they have consecutive letters that share the same button:
2 - ABC
3 - DEF
4 - GHI...defcon, hi, no, attitude, xylophone, on, monday, monkey, mono, dig, back, babble and 212 more...
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capitalcreative's Words
deviltry, visceral, cassanova, assuage, genesis, hot minute, osmosis, wistful, sublime, loathe, farfetched, newfangled and 283 more...
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words
pointingstock, kibosh, turnspit, ant-bear, earthborn, pitter, infold, hayseed, stoker, prismatic, backcross, blizzard and 96 more...
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beastly verbs
someone must already have this list?
squirrel away, worm it out of so..., pony up, fish for compliments, weasel out, badger, outfox, horse around, hound, cow, chicken out, goose and 99 more...
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Names of U.S. Fighter Aircraft
These are the nicknames, not the model names. So the F-15 Eagle is listed here as "Eagle."
hawk, viper, peashooter, lightning, airacobra, warhawk, lancer, rocket, thunderbolt, skyrocket, mustang, swoose goose and 58 more...
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tell me you love me
razbliuto, paramour, mistress, lothario, coquette, surgation, tentigo, doxy, beau, hubby, satyr, satyriasis and 46 more...
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The Ultimate Guide to Animal Insults
Now, I'm not trying to promote name-calling here, don't get me wrong; but let's face it...sometimes people can natter on like popinjays or pester you like gnatflies- and you should at least know wh...
buzzard, dodo, gadfly, gallows bird, gilt, grimalkin, jackal, louse, popinjay, shrew, tomcat, vixen and 17 more...
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Animals
bloodhound, cat, kitty, tabby, feline, kitten, lion, tiger, wild-cat, leopard, panther, jaguar and 57 more...
Tweets
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john “The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is a supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, variable-sweep wing aircraft. The F-14 was the United States Navy's primary maritime air superiority fighter, fleet defense interceptor and tactical reconnaissance platform from 1974 to 2006.�? More on Wikipedia. Dec 30, 2008
jinglebelljosie a woman-chaser Aug 22, 2008