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  • noun Plural form of tomcat.

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Examples

  • And so they both attempted to degrade the status of the housewife's role, but by encouraging women to become as sexually promiscuous as men -- as -- as the ideal for women should be behaving like male tomcats, which is what all the feminists were preaching originally, what that does is it completely destroys the matrimonial strategy because if men are getting all the sex that they want in a market of free sex, they're less likely to marry.

    Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism 1998

  • There is this video of a pair of hooded crows that take on a pair of fighting tomcats in a battle royal that clearly demonstrates the birds' intelligence.

    David Mizejewski: Corvids Are Oddly Intelligent David Mizejewski 2011

  • All night long, two tomcats staged a wailing standoff in the vacant lot under our bedroom window.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • There was a terrible thunderstorm that night, and the fighting seemed to stop for about three hours, but the tomcats kept going; when I woke up the next morning, at seven a.m., they were still at it.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Martha Washington even named one of Mount Vernon's tomcats Hamilton.

    A Short History of Political Suicide 2011

  • There is this video of a pair of hooded crows that take on a pair of fighting tomcats in a battle royal that clearly demonstrates the birds' intelligence.

    David Mizejewski: Corvids Are Oddly Intelligent David Mizejewski 2011

  • Martha Washington even named one of Mount Vernon's tomcats Hamilton.

    A Short History of Political Suicide 2011

  • All night long, two tomcats staged a wailing standoff in the vacant lot under our bedroom window.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • UPDATE: I forgot to mention the best part: it had already been established that one of my tomcats, Biwu, after impregnating all of MY cats, went down the street to live for awhile until the neighbor's cat got pregnant --- so Chan-ho and Chantho are Biwu's children and thus part of our extended cat family.

    Kitten Chan-ho and Kitten Chantho: Origins (Updated) nissa_amas_katoj 2009

  • There was a terrible thunderstorm that night, and the fighting seemed to stop for about three hours, but the tomcats kept going; when I woke up the next morning, at seven a.m., they were still at it.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

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