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beat with a cat-o''-nine-tails feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar; domestic cats; wildcats a spiteful woman gossip; "what a cat she is!" any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild a large vehicle that is driven by caterpillar tracks; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work a whip with nine knotted cords; "British sailors feared the cat" an informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the guy''s only doing it for some doll" the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant; "in Yemen kat is used daily by 85% of adults" eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross-sectional scans along a single axis |
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