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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A male cat.
  2. v. Slang To be sexually active with more than one partner. Used of men.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A male cat, especially a full-grown male cat.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A tom, a male cat.
  2. v. To prowl for sexual gratification.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A male cat, especially when full grown or of large size.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. male cat

Etymologies

  1. 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.”

    Simon & Schuster: Leftover Love

  • “I used this command to create the keystore keytool - genkey - alias tomcat - keyalg RSA - keystore/etc/tomcat6/keystore and answered the prompts”

    DaniWeb IT Discussion Community

  • “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'.”

    So much tidier than bloodshed

  • “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?”

    LinuxQuestions.org

  • “I found on another forum this command: kill -9 ` ps - aef | grep 'tomcat' | grep - v grep | awk '{print $2}' `”

    LinuxQuestions.org

  • “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.”

    Fictionaut: Tomcat

  • “My first thought was that it was a tomcat outside my window, until I realized it was coming from inside the apartment.”

    Simon & Schuster: Miles to Go

  • “He was the son of Chachamaru the cat and some tomcat she met.”

    Archive 2009-05-01

  • “Why is it that every time I see a red tomcat I think of Tiki?”

    Chillin` Kitty | My[confined]Space

  • “Sure, a tomcat has to prowl, but I swear there's more out than in around these parts.”

    The Mondays: Sometimes the Muse Is In the Bushes

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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

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