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noun · uncountable · rare

cat's meow

A self-satisfied personA self-satisfied person.

US/ˌkætsmiˈaʊ̯/

Meaning

2 senses

(dated, idiomatic, uncountable)A self-satisfied person.
(dated, idiomatic, uncountable)A highly sought-after and fancy example of something.
That new car was really the cat’s meow.

Synonyms

22 synonyms

all that and a bag of chips antelope's cantaloupes ant's pants cat's whiskers cream of the crop crème de la crème da bomb finger-lickin' good flea's eyebrows fox's socks greatest thing since sliced bread gold standard llama's pajamas ne plus ultra

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

casualty catA1 cataclysm catacomb catalogueB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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