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cat napper

cat napper is the alternative form of catnapper.

Meaning of catnapper

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

Forms of cat napper

pluralcat nappers

Questions about cat napper

What is cat napper the alternative form of?
Cat napper is the alternative form of catnapper.

Words near cat napper in the dictionary

  1. cat milks
  2. cat mill
  3. cat mills
  4. cat nap
  5. cat napped
  6. cat napper
  7. cat nappers
  8. cat napping
  9. cat naps
  10. cat nip
  11. cat o' mountain

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