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  • noun Alternative form of catnip.

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Examples

  • I guess I'll just have to start carryin a cat-nip mouse in my pack, just in case I need to make a quick escape ...

    Nebraska Hunter Battles Cougar For Deer Carcass 2009

  • I guess I'll just have to start carryin a cat-nip mouse in my pack, just in case I need to make a quick escape ...

    Nebraska Hunter Battles Cougar For Deer Carcass 2009

  • Because NoVa is within the beltway and thus attracts the attention of national political media, and because certain statewide Republican office-holders espouse positions that are such cat-nip for national coverage, we should leverage the message of Virginia Democrats onto the national scene.

    Greg Werkheiser: Thoughts on the DPVA Chair Job 2010

  • Apparently, being a good looking and well known athlete is like Hooter Girl cat-nip, but earning serious bank can also uprade you from simply bedding a stripper (yawn) to pulling a "VIP Nightclub Hostess" or a reality chick from "Tool Acadamy".

    Lisa Guerrero: I Would've Used A Baseball Bat 2009

  • Then all the other cats squeezed under the fence, and one of the cats said for all the other cats to carry the fat cat on their shoulders, as a hero, to the cat-nip patch.

    Awards: who needs 'em? Roger Sutton 2005

  • ~ The Raw and the Cooked: Robert Lowell and the Beats -- "Robert Lowell's 1960 statement regarding the state of poetry not only pitted the Beats against "cat-nip" academics, but publicly declared them to be a force."

    Speedlinking 10/15/07 William Harryman 2007

  • An hour later, after Len ate a bowl of cereal and two fun-size candy bars “Whoopee!” he said to Angie, and Angie taunted Percy with a cat-nip mouse, Len swung open the front door screen and Angie followed behind him.

    The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004

  • An hour later, after Len ate a bowl of cereal and two fun-size candy bars “Whoopee!” he said to Angie, and Angie taunted Percy with a cat-nip mouse, Len swung open the front door screen and Angie followed behind him.

    The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004

  • An hour later, after Len ate a bowl of cereal and two fun-size candy bars “Whoopee!” he said to Angie, and Angie taunted Percy with a cat-nip mouse, Len swung open the front door screen and Angie followed behind him.

    The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004

  • Us had medicine made from herbs, leaves and roots; some of them was cat-nip, garlic root, tansy, and roots of burdock.

    Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

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