cat-napper

Noun

catnapper (plural catnappers)

1. One who takes a short sleep or nap.
   • Besides, I reflected, Joe might easily have become a catnapper, as so many millions of other Americans had become since Sarah Perkins, during the campaign, had made it so widely known that although the incumbent President slept in a bed with the covers over him for three and sometimes four hours a...1965, The New Yorker, page 28
2. The kidnapper of a cat.
   • Mr. Harding was contacted by the catnappers, and arrangements were made for him to pay a ransom and recover the animal.1999, Elane Osborn, The Cop and Calamity Jane, page 103