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cat-flap

cat-flap is the alternative form of cat flap.

Meaning of cat flap

Noun

cat flap (plural cat flaps)

  1. A small, hinged panel, usually cut into a door, with an opening just large enough for a cat to enter.
    • Then, one Saturday when Martin was working but Yvonne wasn't, she brought a saw and other tools with which she constructed a hinged "cat flap" in a rear down-stairs door. It meant that the cats were free to come and go at any time, the effect being healthier for the pets and for the household.1984, Arthur Hailey, Strong Medicine, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 340

Forms of cat-flap

pluralcat-flaps

Questions about cat-flap

What is cat-flap the alternative form of?
Cat-flap is the alternative form of cat flap.

Words near cat-flap in the dictionary

  1. cat-cowing
  2. cat-cows
  3. cat-eye
  4. cat-eyed
  5. cat-eyes
  6. cat-flap
  7. cat-flaps
  8. cat-foot
  9. cat-footed
  10. cat-footedness
  11. cat-footing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cat-flap (page history and authors); cat flap (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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