Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A short light sleep; a brief nap.

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Examples

  • As for my internment into and exhumation out of Oswald's ossuary, it lasted only a moment; a cat-nap at best.

    Stephen J. Gertz: I Slept in Lee Harvey Oswald's Coffin Stephen J. Gertz 2010

  • As for my internment into and exhumation out of Oswald's ossuary, it lasted only a moment; a cat-nap at best.

    Stephen J. Gertz: I Slept in Lee Harvey Oswald's Coffin Stephen J. Gertz 2010

  • I remember being impressed by his “cat-nap” couch!

    Polka Dot Cottage: The Edison Museum 2010

  • It wasn't long before the Americans were sitting in the shade, curled up with the current novels for the week, or taking a cat-nap on one of the many mattresses spread throughout the floor of the house…. and often completing the whole sequence!

    Last Week's "Green Camp' Jack Garvey 2009

  • It wasn't long before the Americans were sitting in the shade, curled up with the current novels for the week, or taking a cat-nap on one of the many mattresses spread throughout the floor of the house…. and often completing the whole sequence!

    Archive 2009-08-01 Jack Garvey 2009

  • We went back to the room, where I took a cat-nap and they went off to explore the ship.

    To Bore the Ever-Loving Shit Out Of You... 2007

  • As folks point out in the comments of the previous post, IM service with Twitter is currently taking a cat-nap.

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

  • In this first-ever guest post on the Twitter Blog Graham has a tip for how bloggers with twitter badges can sail smoothly past those occasional times when Twitter is taking a little, *ahem* "cat-nap" so to speak.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • But I reckon it was more than a cat-nap, for when I waked up the stars was shining bright, the fog was all gone, and I was spinning down a big bend stern first.

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

  • Although this had been rare in the past, “[I] now hardly shut my eyes for a cat-nap without conjuring up something … [a state] accounted for by weakness, I suppose.”

    A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003

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