cat-nap

cat-nap (plural cat-naps)

1. Alternative form of catnap (“short amount of time spent sleeping”)

cat-nap (third-person singular simple present cat-naps, present participle cat-napping, simple past and past participle cat-napped)

1. Alternative form of catnap (either sense)
   • 2009, Darby Lee Patterson, Karen Pastor, Hal Hammond, The Cat-Napping Caper, page 43:

     We don't even know if this kitty will be cat-napped. We won't know until way after it is gone from its new home!

   • 2012, Jim Scott, Wanderings and Sojourns:

     Lashed to the cockpit grab rails he'd cat-napped between watches as best he could in the wind driven rain and spray, eating rarely and never keeping anything down.

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