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tear-cats

tear-cats is the plural of tear-cat.

Meaning of tear-cat

Noun

tear-cat (plural tear-cats)

  1. (obsolete) An overactor.
    • Fie upon't, mere fustian; I had rather hear two good bawdy jests then a whole play of such tear-cat thunder-claps.1606, John Day, The Isle of Gulls, in White, Thomas, editor, The Old English Drama, volume 4, published 1830, Induction, page 15

Questions about tear-cats

What is tear-cats the plural of?
Tear-cats is the plural of tear-cat.

Words near tear-cats in the dictionary

  1. tear-assed
  2. tear-asses
  3. tear-assing
  4. tear-brimmed
  5. tear-cat
  6. tear-cats
  7. tear-down
  8. tear-downs
  9. tear-gas
  10. tear-gases
  11. tear-gassed

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