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alley cat
noun
- a homeless, usually mongrel, cat that scavenges for food in alleys, streets, etc.
alley cat
noun
- a homeless cat that roams in back streets
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Word History and Origins
Origin of alley cat1
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Idioms and Phrases
A promiscuous woman; also, a person of loose morals. For example, She's constantly picking up men in bars—a real alley cat . This idiom transfers a stray cat that frequents alleys in search of food to a woman of easy virtue, especially a prostitute seeking customers. [ Slang ; early 1900s]Discover More
Example Sentences
The alley cat and her kittens would have mugged him already.
Rat is tough, a 15-year-old “alley cat” version of her beautiful mother, Vanessa.
Her sorrow was like sympathy for a mangy alley cat which she could not take home.
One cold rainy day when my father was a little boy, he met an old alley cat on his street.
The snow-white Angora was there as well as the mangy alley cat.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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