cat-lap

English

Noun

cat-lap (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of catlap
   • 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, numbers 106-144, page 59:

     […] before he could presume to deliver an opinion upon the comparative merits of cat-lap and grog […]

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• lap cat, lapcat