cougars

Noun

cougar (plural cougars)

1. (Canada, US) A wild feline, of species Puma concolor, native to the Americas.
   • They are found in Brasil, Paraguay, and in the country of the Amazons; and there is reason to believe that the animal, described by some travellers, under the name of the Ocorome, in Peru, is the same as the cougar, as well as that in the country of the Iroquois, which has been considered as a...1792, Georges-Louis Leclerc, anonymous translator, Buffon's Natural History, volume 7, London: Printed by J.S. Barr, Bridges-Street, Covent-Garden, translation of original in French

   Synonyms:

   catamount, catamountain, mountain lion, painter, panther, puma, red tiger

2. (Canada, US, derogatory, slang) An older woman who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger men, by implication a female “sexual predator”.
   • A cougar approached Warren at the Palomino Club and asked for a dance.

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