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Alley Cat

Definition: Alley Cat

Alley Cat

Noun

1. Homeless cat.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Alley Cat

Synonym: stray (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Alley Cat

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Tin Pan Alley Cat (1960)

The Alley Cat (1941)

Alley Cat (1991)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Alley Cat

DomainTitle

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Alley Cat

Computer Images:
Alley Cat

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Sounds Captioned with "Alley Cat".

PlayCaption
Hissing; hiss; hisses; cat; cats; cat fight; feline; tomcat; alley cat.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Alley Cat

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  alley cat

148

  charleston alley cat

54

  alley cat game

16

  alley cat strike

11

  alley cat denver

6

  alley cat song

6

  alley cat comic

6

  alley cat miami

4

  alley cat tattoo

4

  alley cat music

3

  bike the alley cat

3

  alley cat font

3

  alley cat rescue

3

  alley cat studio

3

  skechers alley cat

3

  alley cat dance

2

  alley cat scratch

2

  alley cat lyrics

2

  alley cat paintball

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Alley Cat

Language Translations for "alley cat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Strassendirne (streetwalker). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

野良猫 (stray cat). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

のらね" (stray cat). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alleyay atcay

   

Russian 

  

бродячий кот. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

gato callejero. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sokak kedisi (stray cat). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Alley Cat

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-l-l-t-y"

-1 letter: acylate, lacteal.

-2 letters: acetal, acetyl, callet, lately, lealty.

-3 letters: aceta, alate, allay, alley, calla, cella, cleat, eclat, lacey, lycea, tally, telly.

-4 letters: acta, acyl, alae, alec, ally, call, cate, cell, celt, clay, lace, lacy, late, leal, tace, tael, tala, talc, tale, tall, teal, tela, tell, yell.

-5 letters: aal, ace, act, ala, ale, all, alt, ate.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-l-l-t-y"
 

+2 letters: salicylate.

 

+3 letters: accentually, acropetally, ancestrally, anecdotally, aphetically, ascetically, aseptically, bacterially, dialectally, elastically, erratically, gametically, salicylates, syllabicate, tetanically.

 

+4 letters: accidentally, adjectivally, archetypally, articulately, athletically, bathetically, beatifically, calculatedly, cleanability, collaterally, ecstatically, empathically, emphatically, hieratically, immaculately, leachability, magnetically, majestically, metallically, octahedrally, operatically, pathetically, pedantically, sacerdotally, semantically, syllabicated, syllabicates, theatrically, thematically.

 

+5 letters: aesthetically, affectionally, anecdotically, antigenically, apathetically, applicatively, asyndetically, atheistically, authentically, categorically, cinematically, collaterality, collenchymata, declaratively, dialectically, diametrically, educationally, enigmatically, enzymatically, facultatively, interracially, intrathecally, kinematically, lethargically, metabolically, metamerically, mutagenically, pneumatically, realistically, recallability, rectangularly, rheumatically, sacramentally, schematically, spectacularly, straitlacedly, strategically.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Alley Cat


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6C 6C 65 79      43 61 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01111001 00100000 01000011 01100001 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#108 &#108 &#101 &#121 &#32 &#67 &#97 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006C 006C 0065 0079      0043 0061 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35787871912376786

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Sounds
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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