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cougar
/ˈkuɡɚ/
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What does cougar mean?
noun
- A wild feline, of species Puma concolor, native to the Americas.
- (slang) A student or alumnus of the Washington State University.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (derogatory, slang) An older woman who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger men, by implication a female “sexual predator”.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkuɡɚ/
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In fact it is next to impossible with any hope of success regularly to hunt the cougar without dogs or bait.
Hurrah!—Here we go like three tin kettles at the tail of a mad cougar!
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Chapter II, "The Father of Game," is on the cougar; Chapter IV, "The Hound of the Plains," is on the coyote; there is an excellent essay on the badger.
"Yes, and he'll tackle a cougar too, of which there are plenty of them around here, if that cowardly animal would only keep out of the trees," admiringly continues mine host, as he orders Barney into his empty salt-barrel again.
Several of Watson's officers who were present when the message was delivered, advised him by all means to return his clothes, for that they knew him to be a most desperate fellow, one who would stop at nothing he set his head upon; witness his late daring act of climbing like a cougar, into a tree, to kill his passing enemies.