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Definition of cat nap
cat nap 
noun
- a short nap.
I'm gonna take a cat nap before we head out. Don't let me sleep too long.
- See more words with the same meaning: to sleep.
Last edited on Dec 20 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 02 2009.
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Other terms relating to 'to sleep': | |
| Definitions include: sleep. | |
| Definitions include: to take a nap. | |
| Definitions include: sleep. | |
| Definitions include: asleep or unconscious. | |
| Definitions include: to fall asleep due to drugs, especially opiates (such as heroin.) | |
| Definitions include: to fall asleep. | |
| Definitions include: to fall asleep unintentionally. | |
| Definitions include: to go to bed. | |
| Definitions include: extremely intoxicated. | |
| Definitions include: something boring. | |
| Definitions include: to sleep. | |
| Definitions include: sleep. | |
| Definitions include: to be asleep, often (but not always) in a place other than one's own bed. | |
| Definitions include: to sleep. | |
| Definitions include: to go home and/or go to bed. | |
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Other terms relating to 'cat': | |
| Definitions include: a female. | |
| Definitions include: A male who moves in on and takes the attention of a female away from another male that she was potentially interested in. | |
| Definitions include: Long chain, such as a watch chain, worn by 'hep cats' and zoot suiters. | |
| Definitions include: a fight between two or more females. | |
| Definitions include: A term used in the Bronx in the seventies denoting that a person is ignored, looked over, paid no attention to, wrote off, disrespected. | |
| Definitions include: raining hard. | |
| Definitions include: something really great. | |
| Definitions include: something great; "first rate." | |
| Definitions include: an infectious disease humans catch from cats. | |
| Definitions include: the best. | |
| Definitions include: the best you can get. | |
| Definitions include: a person who copies others. | |
| Definitions include: to hold down others from social progression. | |
| Definitions include: an admonishment that curiosity can be dangerous. | |
| Definitions include: a rich person. | |
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Other terms relating to 'nap': | |
| Definitions include: death. | |
| Definitions include: a short nap prior to partying. | |
| Definitions include: A quick usually deep sleep that refreshes you (usually after you haven't slept for some time). | |
| Definitions include: to die. | |
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