cat-flap

See also: catflap and cat flap

English

Noun

cat-flap (plural cat-flaps)

1. Alternative form of cat flap
   • 1984, Randolph Stow, The Suburbs of Hell: A Novel, Taplinger, →ISBN, page 137:

     Harry Ufford opened his front door, and his animals, from the yard, came bursting through the cat-flap in the back door and rushed on him.

   • 1985, Derek Albert Pearsall, The Canterbury Tales (in his introduction to Chaucer's Miller's Tale), Routledge (UK), →ISBN, p. 182,

     We could find our way blindfold about old John's house, with its cat-flap in Nicholas's bedroom-door.

   • 2006, Robert Graham, Holy Joe, Troubador, →ISBN, page 141:

     While she's distracted, Batman and Robin make heroic, synchronised leaps off the fridge onto the lino and crash hell for leather, one after the other, through the cat-flap. The cat-flap's plastic frame collapses in pieces on the floor behind them.

Translations

cat flap — see cat flap

See also

• doggie door
• pet door

Anagrams

• flat cap