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In basketball, Tabbies would have been more like it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tabbies are easily subdivided into four classes, viz:—1, the Red Tabby; 2, the Brown Tabby; 3, the Blue or Silver Tabby; and 4, the Spotted Tabby.

From The Domestic Cat by Stables, Gordon

The Tabbies got so thick that even at night a man would get stung insane if he went outside the screen.

From Tabby by Marks, Winston K.

The Blue cat: just one word about this pretty creature before passing on to the Tabbies.

From The Domestic Cat by Stables, Gordon

The Tabbies Two people who have quarrelled cheerfully before marriage and whose engagement has been broken three or four times often surprise the tabbies who prophesy misfortune by settling down into post-nuptial content.

From The Spinster Book by Reed, Myrtle