"cat" noun feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar; domestic cats; wildcats [syn: true cat (http://word.sc/true cat)] an informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the guy's only doing it for some doll" [syn: guy (http://word.sc/guy), hombre (http://word.sc/hombre), bozo (http://word.sc/bozo)] a spiteful woman gossip; "what a cat she is!" the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant; "in Yemen kat is used daily by 85% of adults" [syn: kat (http://word.sc/kat), khat (http://word.sc/khat), qat (http://word.sc/qat), quat (http://word.sc/quat), Arabian tea (http://word.sc/Arabian tea), African tea (http://word.sc/African tea)] a whip with nine knotted cords; "British sailors feared the cat" [syn: cat-o'-nine-tails (http://word.sc/cat-o'-nine-tails)] a large vehicle that is driven by caterpillar tracks; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work [syn: Caterpillar (http://word.sc/Caterpillar)] any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild [syn: big cat (http://word.sc/big cat)] a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross-sectional scans along a single axis [syn: computerized tomography (http://word.sc/computerized tomography), computed tomography (http://word.sc/computed tomography), CT (http://word.sc/CT), computerized axial tomography (http://word.sc/computerized axial tomography), computed axial tomography (http://word.sc/computed axial tomography)] verb beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" [syn: vomit (http://word.sc/vomit), vomit up (http://word.sc/vomit up), purge (http://word.sc/purge), cast (http://word.sc/cast), sick (http://word.sc/sick), be sick (http://word.sc/be sick), disgorge (http://word.sc/disgorge), regorge (http://word.sc/regorge), retch (http://word.sc/retch), puke (http://word.sc/puke), barf (http://word.sc/barf), spew (http://word.sc/spew), spue (http://word.sc/spue), chuck (http://word.sc/chuck), upchuck (http://word.sc/upchuck), honk (http://word.sc/honk), regurgitate (http://word.sc/regurgitate), throw up (http://word.sc/throw up)] [ant: keep down (http://word.sc/keep down)] [also: catting (http://word.sc/catting), catted (http://word.sc/catted)] Source: http://www.word.sc/cat

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