shoot the cat
English
Verb
shoot the cat (third-person singular simple present shoots the cat, present participle shooting the cat, simple past and past participle shot the cat)Category:English lemmas#SHOOTTHECATCategory:English verbs#SHOOTTHECATCategory:English multiword terms#SHOOTTHECATCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SHOOTTHECATCategory:Pages with entries#SHOOT%20THE%20CATCategory:Pages with 1 entry#SHOOT%20THE%20CAT
- (UKCategory:British English#SHOOTTHECAT, slangCategory:English slang#SHOOTTHECAT, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#SHOOTTHECAT) To vomit.
- 2013, Anita Mills, Miss Gordon's Mistake:
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“A dog,” Roland supplied. “Shot the cat twice after we got him to bed.”
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary
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