Definition of "cat-like" [cat-like]

• Alternative form of catlike. (adjective)

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• "She grappled with it concretely, making a cat-like leap for the murderer and gripping his neck-cloth with both her hands."
• "But the mother of Bâtard, as he dimly remembered her, was snarling, bickering, obscene, husky, full-fronted and heavy-chested, with a malign eye, a cat-like grip on life, and a genius for trickery and evil."
• "He dived out of the galley door, or glided rather, with a swiftness and smoothness of gait that struck me as being not so much cat-like as oily."