Definition of rain cats and dogs
rain cats and dogs
- to rain hard.
Last edited on Aug 11 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.
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Other terms relating to 'and': | |
| Definitions include: Assault and Battery | |
| Definitions include: Rain. | |
| Definitions include: Cockney rhyme for ''believe''. | |
| Definitions include: to talk a lot but never take action. | |
| Definitions include: clumsy. | |
| Definitions include: better than all that. | |
| Definitions include: the best. | |
| Definitions include: Without substance, All talk and no action | |
| Definitions include: a lot of money. | |
| Definitions include: to get fouled in basketball and make the basket | |
| Definitions include: used to indicate an extreme condition or an excessive amount. | |
| Definitions include: et cetera. | |
| Definitions include: used to indicate an extreme condition or an excessive amount. | |
| Definitions include: a quantity between 1 and one order of magnitude lower than the quantity previously mentioned. | |
| Definitions include: interjection of agreement. | |
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 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 person who copies others. | |
| Definitions include: to hold down others from social progression. | |
| Definitions include: an admonishment that curiosity can be dangerous. | |
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Other terms relating to 'dog': | |
| Definitions include: a mythical creature who is extremely happy or fortunate. | |
| Definitions include: be in serious trouble. | |
| Definitions include: the best at something; "the man". | |
| Definitions include: to start drinking alcohol again in the morning to avoid feeling hung-over. | |
| Definitions include: raining hard. | |
| Definitions include: one of many apocryphal sex "moves". | |
| Definitions include: very crazy. | |
| Definitions include: alternate spelling of dog. | |
| Definitions include: a mess, from "dog's breakfast." | |
| Definitions include: daughter, literally dear daughter. | |
| Definitions include: to engage in an unproductive activity; waste time. | |
| Definitions include: a friend. | |
| Definitions include: a sales pitch. | |
| Definitions include: you're in big trouble. | |
| Definitions include: to mark one's place in a book by folding down the corner of the page. | |
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Other terms relating to 'rain': | |
| Definitions include: not letting the bad stuff get you down | |
| Definitions include: to throw paper currency into the air above or near a group of people, so that they can grab it. | |
| Definitions include: to be many or much of something present. | |
| Definitions include: the shower. | |
| Definitions include: Condom | |
| Definitions include: something that brings money. | |
| Definitions include: no matter what. | |
| Definitions include: good. | |
| Definitions include: something is infrequent, but when it happens, it happens all at once. | |
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