jackal
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I suppose she is referring to an alley cat or perhaps a jackal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
Two rucks later he is in trying to jackal for the ball as a full-back because he is annoyed he hasn't caught that kick.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2025
Though the creature is sometimes referred to as the Falklands fox, the warrah did not physically resemble a fox or wolf, but rather a coyote or jackal.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2024
Despite the Ivy League imprimatur, the cartoonist was still happy when people called him “the retching jackal guy,” a reference to his Mad illustration showing that animal mid-vomit.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2023
“The senior wife was a hyena with many children, and the junior was a skinny jackal with only one little boy.”
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
As North Korea’s hagiographers rewrote history, they held American missionaries responsible for the country’s misfortunes, while state-sponsored novels, plays and museums depicted them as jackals who subjected Koreans to vile human experiments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
The animals, also known as the plains wolf and listed as vulnerable, are smaller than the stronger Himalayan wolf and can be mistaken for other species such as jackals.
From Barron's ● Nov. 30, 2025
Though they are genetically closer to jackals, they convergently evolved to resemble gray wolves.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2025
Kremlev said those boycotting the championships were "worse than hyenas and jackals" because of their violation of the "integrity of sport and culture".
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2024
Wandering ascetics, they were three thin worn-out men, neither old nor young, with dusty and bleeding shoulders, practically naked, scorched by the sun, solitary, strange and hostile—lean jackals in the world of men.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
