bear cat

noun — 3 senses

noun

A binturong (Arctictis binturong, in the family Viverridae).

US, Archaic, Slang An excellent or formidable thing or person.

"Carmen's a bear cat," I says. "If they was all as good as Carmen, I'd go every night."1916, Ring W. Lardner, “Three Kings and a Pair”, in The Saturday Evening Post:

Synonym of cat bear (“a red panda”).

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