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Definition of "tomcat" [tom•cat]

  • A male cat. (noun)
  • Slang To be sexually active with more than one partner. Used of men. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "tomcat" in a sentence
  • "The tomcat was his usual, unapproachable self, lashing his tail as if to silence her any time Layne attempted to address a comment to him."
  • "I used this command to create the keystore keytool - genkey - alias tomcat - keyalg RSA - keystore/etc/tomcat6/keystore and answered the prompts"
  • "I am looking for the simple recipe for an aspect of the genus felis domestica, in particular that of the male of the species, commonly known as the 'tomcat'."