alley cat

I suppose she is referring to an alley cat or perhaps a jackal.

“I’ll be a French maid when I meet you at the door / I’m like an alley cat — drink the milk up, I want more.”

I used all kinds of lounge lizards, alley cats, and I made a substitute father figure in Papa Croc, who was this Don King character.

“I would favor a license for cats, which would greatly diminish the number of unfed alley cats that must hunt for their living,” she once said.

Both of the men were rolling up their sleeves, huffing and posturing like a pair of alley cats.