alleycat

plural alleycats

1. alternativeAlternative form of alley cat.

   Having dropped just nine games in two matches – two short of Jimmy Connors's 1980 record – [Roger] Federer was reduced to fighting like an alleycat.

   2012 June 29, Kevin Mitchell, “Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 15 Nov 2016

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   There are also competitions called alleycats, in which bicyclists pick their own routes between a series of checkpoints where monitors stamp their paper manifests.

   2008 March 9, Colin Moynihan, “Add Alleycat Races to List of Bike Messengers’ Risks”, in New York Times

present singular third person alleycats · participle present alleycatting · participle past alleycatted · past alleycatted

1. alternativeAlternative form of alley cat.