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catnaper

catnaper is the alternative spelling 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 catnaper

pluralcatnapers

Questions about catnaper

What is catnaper the alternative spelling of?
Catnaper is the alternative spelling of catnapper.

Words near catnaper in the dictionary

  1. Catmore
  2. Catmull
  3. Catmull-Rom spline
  4. Catmull-Rom splines
  5. catnap
  6. catnaper
  7. catnapers
  8. catnapped
  9. catnapper
  10. catnappers
  11. catnapping

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Adapted from Wiktionary: catnaper (page history and authors); catnapper (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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