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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 planes dusted us with everything they had, and it cut down the Tabbies pretty well again, but it didn't touch the spiders, of course.

From Tabby by Marks, Winston K.

We called them "The Tabbies," meaning no disrespect to cats, either.

From As Seen By Me by Bell, Lilian

These I divide into five primary classes, namely—1, Tortoiseshell; 2, Black; 3, White; 4, Blue or Slate-colour; and 5, the Tabbies.

From The Domestic Cat by Stables, Gordon