bear cat

See also: bearcat

English

Arctictis binturong, a bearcat

Noun

bear cat (plural bear cats)

1. A binturong (Arctictis binturong, in the family Viverridae).
2. (US, slang, now rare) An excellent or formidable thing or person.
   • 1916, Ring W. Lardner, “Three Kings and a Pair”, in The Saturday Evening Post‎^[1]:

     "Carmen's a bear cat," I says. "If they was all as good as Carmen, I'd go every night."

Synonyms

• cat bear

References

• “bear cat”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Binturong on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Arctictis binturong on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Arctictis binturong on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• abacter, abreact, bractea, cabaret, cat bear