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Thread #19803 Message #4187099
Posted By: and e
14-Sep-23 - 08:26 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Coming Home from the Wake/Nellie Milkmaid
Subject: RE: Origins: Coming Home from the Wake/Nellie Milkmaid

shoot the cat v.1 [late 19C+] to have sexual intercourse.

Pg 1274, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, Jonathan Green (editor).

See online: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cassell_s_Dictionary_of_Slang/5GpLcC4a5fAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22shoot+the+Cat%22+slang&pg=PA1274&printsec=frontcover