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alley cat
noun as in homeless cat
Weak match
Example Sentences
“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.
And although he has his own sleeping space in a spare room, the former alley cat of late seems to have discovered that bedding down with humans clearly has its charms.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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