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Definition of lets the cat out of the bag

let the cat out of the bag

verb

  • to release a secret.
                                                                                                               

                                                    

                                                                                                                                  

    Citation from "Acid Queen", Reaper (TV), Season 1 Episode 13 (2008) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

    Last edited on Dec 31 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'bag':

Definitions include: better than all that.
Definitions include: the best.
Definitions include: a general insult.
Definitions include: to lie to; deceive.
Definitions include: a female who is in a relationship only for illegal powdered drugs (e.g. cocaine,) which is often stored in a small bag.
Definitions include: when French fries are in a container that is in a bag, those French fries that fall out of the container and settle at the bottom of the bag.
Definitions include: a person who is so ugly that one would have to put a bag over their head (so as to hide their face) before considering having intercourse with them.
Definitions include: a female who does sexual favors as payment instead of cash to obtain drugs or get a bag/sack of her own.
Definitions include: a homeless woman.
Definitions include: noun, means a sack lunch.
Definitions include: an extremely skinny person.
Definitions include: a despicable person.
Definitions include: something displeasing.
Definitions include: a person who is a source of constant surprise.
Definitions include: to insult for fun; "make fun of".

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: two people who become enemies and make conflicts.
Definitions include: a short nap.
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 calm, cool, and collected person especially in times of turmoil or trial.
Definitions include: a person who copies others.

Other terms relating to 'let':

Definitions include: "Let me".
Definitions include: suffix indicating a small version of something.
Definitions include: To fart,flatuate,or pass gas. He just let a stinker.
Definitions include: forget about something bad that happened in the past.
Definitions include: to flatulate
Definitions include: an invitation to let something proceed, as when bull-riding and requesting the gate be opened.
Definitions include: to relax.
Definitions include: to stop pursuing a line of conversation or questioning.
Definitions include: to do something enthusiastically.
Definitions include: to relax and have fun.
Definitions include: See off the hook.
Definitions include: to flatulate; "fart".
Definitions include: to flatulate; "fart".
Definitions include: to let a person suffer the consequences of their actions.
Definitions include: let's have sex.

Other terms relating to 'of':

Definitions include: a worthless person.
Definitions include: sexual activity.
Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a little crazy
Definitions include: of lower than average intelligence.
Definitions include: "not all there".
Definitions include: skittish.
Definitions include: an amount of violence.
Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: an impressive.
Definitions include: an impressive.
Definitions include: many.
Definitions include: an emphatic "yes".
Definitions include: better than all that.
Definitions include: the best.

Other terms relating to 'out':

Definitions include: the feeling when you defecate huge and your anus is stretched.
Definitions include: fatigued after amphetamine use.
Definitions include: very; really; extremely.
Definitions include: to ask a person on a date.
Definitions include: in an irreparably bad situation; "out of luck"; "screwed".
Definitions include: to defecate; "poop".
Definitions include: to get someone out of jail by posting bail.
Definitions include: to tell on someone; "snitch".
Definitions include: a session of getting baked (i.e. high from marijuana.)
Definitions include: to leave.
Definitions include: See also balls to the wall.
Definitions include: to hit or cause bodily injury.
Definitions include: to study to excess or to be over-competitive in school-work.
Definitions include: to beat severely.
Definitions include: to beat severely.

Other terms relating to 'the':

Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone.
Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving.
Definitions include: interrogation.
Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: information.
Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: inclusive.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing.
Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: of a male, to urinate.
Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them
Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner.

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