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cat-lap (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of catlap
    • 1823, William Cobbett, Cobbett's Weekly Register, volume 46, page 777:
      What reason has he, therefore, to suppose that the return of the smock-frock will even increase the gobbling of potatoes and the drinking of cat-lap?
    • 1862, Vanity Fair, volume 5, numbers 106-144, page 59:
      [] before he could presume to deliver an opinion upon the comparative merits of cat-lap and grog []

References edit

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

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