Synonyms of alley cat

alley cat

noun

as in kitten

Related Words

• kitten
• kit
• tabby
• house cat
• tomcat
• gib
• kitty
• pussy
• mouser
• cat
• feline
• pussycat
• puss
• moggy

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of alley cat

That also includes Leonard, a dapper old parrot who lives in the clinic, and Bitchy, a mangy, rangy alley cat who recently wandered into the office and took up residence. — Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 30 July 2025

To this day, the meanest alley cat in London testifies to the eternal return of cat life. — Lewis Hyde, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025

There are housecats and alley cats, Brawley said, and then there are tigers and lions. — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 20 May 2025

That seemed as incongruous a combination as a nightingale harmonizing with an alley cat. — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2025

The week’s biggest stories Presidential debate Biden’s verbal stumbles, Trump’s ‘morals of an alley cat’: 6 debate takeaways. — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2024

Like Selina Kyle being nibbled into Catwoman by her alley cats, Doug’s origin story involves a nurturing puppy pile and a preternatural ability to communicate with the army of mutts who, hilariously, do his bidding like henchmen in a gangster movie. — Jen Yamato, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024

The cats have to find their way back home to Paris with the help of a musically-inclined alley cat. — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2023

There is a genuine pathos in the vision of a man who has achieved power but remains unreconciled to himself, who soothes his way past his own rages and agonies by listening to the song of a homeless alley cat. — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021