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dead catted

dead catted is the simple past and past participle of dead cat.

Meaning of dead cat

Verb

dead cat (third-person singular simple present dead cats, present participle dead catting, simple past and past participle dead catted)

  1. (ambitransitive, figuratively) To announce (something) as a dead cat; to raise an issue as a political distraction.
    • Long picked scars and carefully nurtured injustices can serve a purpose, and we can see it in Obrador's dead catting, the narrative of Brexit, the saga of the Falkland Islands, the Greek financial crisis, and independence movements in democratic nations across Europe.2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 170

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Questions about dead catted

What is dead catted the simple past and past participle of?
Dead catted is the simple past and past participle of dead cat.

Words near dead catted in the dictionary

  1. dead calm
  2. dead cat
  3. dead cat bounce
  4. dead cat bounces
  5. dead cats
  6. dead catted
  7. dead catting
  8. dead center
  9. dead centers
  10. dead centre
  11. dead centres

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dead catted (page history and authors); dead cat (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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