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shot the cat

shot the cat is the simple past and past participle of shoot the cat.

Meaning of shoot the cat

Verb

shoot the cat (third-person singular simple present shoots the cat, present participle shooting the cat, simple past and past participle shot the cat)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) To vomit.
    • “[…] I am telling you the man is as sick as a— a—”
      “A dog,” Roland supplied. “Shot the cat twice after we got him to bed.”2013, Anita Mills, Miss Gordon's Mistake

Questions about shot the cat

What is shot the cat the simple past and past participle of?
Shot the cat is the simple past and past participle of shoot the cat.

Words near shot the cat in the dictionary

  1. shot stopper
  2. shot stoppers
  3. shot the boots
  4. shot the breeze
  5. shot the bull
  6. shot the cat
  7. shot the five
  8. shot the gold
  9. shot the lens
  10. shot the lights out
  11. shot the messenger

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