cat around

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cat around

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Perhaps referring to the behavior of a cat in heat.

verb cats around · catting around · catted around

intransitive, slang To engage in sex with various partners; to sleep around; to cheat on a sexual partner. Mrs S. was convinced that any girl who visited a boy in his bedsitter after 10 p.m. was up to no good. 'If you boys want to cat around, okay, but you're not going to do it under my roof! This is a respectable house!' she was fond of saying whenever she suspected we were trying to put one across her
Similar: alley cat
US, intransitive, slang To wander; to waste time or idle.

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@misc{cat_around_2026,
  title = {cat around},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cat%20around},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}