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Definition of Black cat
1. Noun. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
Definition of Black cat
1. Noun. (soccer) someone connected with w:Sunderland A.F.C. Sunderland Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc. ¹
2. Noun. A fisher, North American marten that has thick brown fur; ''Martes pennanti''. ¹
3. Noun. A cat with black fur. ¹
4. Verb. (context: nautical slang) To do in some respect better than another. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Black Cat
Literary usage of Black cat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1890)
"There is a popular saying in various parts of New England that it betokens good
luck to be followed by a black cat. A black or gray cat or kitten coming to ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1890)
"There is a popular saying in various parts of New England that it betokens good
luck to be followed by a black cat. A black or gray cat or kitten coming to ..."
3. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1902)
"Then she began to read : "This is a black cat. The black cat can run. The black
cat has caught a mouse." When I went home the first thing I did was to show ..."
4. The BookmanPopular culture (1911)
"THE NEWSPAPER WITH NO WASTE CIRCULATION Money for Story Writers THE black cat
wants clever, unusual, short stories—stories that tell well in from 1000 to ..."
5. The Concept of Knowledge by Panayot Butchvarov (1970)
"The reason he would call the proposition “Some black cats are not black” false
is that he knows that he could never find a black cat that is not black. ..."
6. Animal and Plant Lore: Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking by Fanny Dickerson Bergen (1899)
"If a black cat cros^ the path of an individual, it is an ill omen. Upper Canada.
171- If, when walking, a black cat cross your path towards the left, ..."
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