catnapper

plural catnappers · alternative cat-napper · alternative cat napper

1. One who takes a short sleep or nap.

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   Besides, I reflected, Joe might easily have become a catnapper, as so many millions of other Americans had become since Sarah Perkins, during the campaign, had made it so widely known that although the incumbent President slept in a bed with the covers over him for three and sometimes four hours a night, she herself never slept at all except for the catnaps.

   1965, The New Yorker, page 28

2. The kidnapper of a cat.

   Mr. Harding was contacted by the catnappers, and arrangements were made for him to pay a ransom and recover the animal.

   1999, Elane Osborn, The Cop and Calamity Jane, page 103