tabby cat

1. 1.

   a cat with a grey or tawny coat mottled with black

   Synonymstabby

   Broaderdomestic cat

Questions about tabby cat

What does tabby cat mean?

tabby cat means "a cat with a grey or tawny coat mottled with black".

What is another word for tabby cat?

Close synonyms include tabby. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tabby cat a common word?

tabby cat is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.