Refers to a situation where any less than the whole item is worse than having nothing at all. The idea is that while it's obvious that sometimes doing (or having) something half-assed is worse than doing it properly, sometimes doing it half-assed is worse than not doing it at all.
Me: Hi Jim, do you like kittens?
Jim: Yeah, kittens are awesome!
Me: Great, well how about I just give you half a cat for now.
Jim: Oh, umm, never mind.
Jim: Yeah, kittens are awesome!
Me: Great, well how about I just give you half a cat for now.
Jim: Oh, umm, never mind.
by Kitten Lover HAC January 13, 2013
Can also refer to tripping out.
When a person hallucinates or sees something that isn't really happening or really there.
When a person hallucinates or sees something that isn't really happening or really there.
by SquishyRock June 11, 2009
by Gavin B. May 30, 2019
The phrase "the cat’s crack", meaning "the height of excellence", was first coined in jest during a family conversation about the low-riding waistline of one family members pants, Catherine(a.k.a- Cat) in Northern New Jersey on April 15, 2018. It can be used interchangeably with the phrase “the bee’s knees” that first became popular in the U.S. in the 1920s, along with "the cat's whiskers" (possibly from the use of these in radio crystal sets), "the cat's pajamas" (pajamas were still new enough to be daring), and similar phrases that didn't endure: "the eel's ankle", ...
Those cookies are the cat’s crack!
by Don Waldoy April 16, 2018
Seldom used nowadays and of obscure origin, it is generally defined as one with an overly exaggerated opinion of one's own importance and/or knowledge.
"Adolph Hitler, when you really think about it, was little more than the ultimate example of a barber's cat."
by Sir Rusteigh the Ghastleigh June 21, 2016
by NiftyMonkey August 13, 2010
by .pompomz April 13, 2022