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two old cat
[ too uh kat ]
noun
, Games.
- one old cat played with two batters.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of two old cat1
An Americanism dating back to 1840–50
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Example Sentences
Robin taught me a kind of back-yard, two-old-cat cricket with a bat fashioned by his own big hands.
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There were two varieties of the game, the first called "one-old-cat," or one-cornered-cat, and the other "two-old-cat."
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Or the A B C class playing two-old-cat, after a league game of extra innings; right you are, my hearty!
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