• Cat-lap

    Full definition of cat-lap

    Noun

    cat-lap

    (uncountable)
    1. (UK, slang, obsolete) Any very weak drink.
      • 1823, William Cobbett, Cobbett's Weekly Register (volume 46, page 777)What reason has he, therefore, to suppose that the return of the smock-frock will even increase the gobbling of potatoes and the drinking of cat-lap?
      • 1862, Vanity Fair (volume 5, issues 106-144, page 59)... before he could presume to deliver an opinion upon the comparative merits of cat-lap and grog ...
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