deadcat

Proper noun. Extremely good game player. See also menace.
Also a dead cat.

What a deadcat.

by deadcat June 14, 2004

swing a dead cat

Silly way of relating the quantity or frequency of something in terms of whether you would hit one if you swung a dead cat.

You can't swing a dead cat in that school without hitting some guy with his underwear showing.

by Coell September 23, 2005

dead cat

1. something said or done to divert attention from unpleasant news,
2. There is a story, popular among British politicians and attributed to the Australian strategist Lynton Crosby, known as "The Dead Cat." A CEO is confronted with poor statistics at a board meeting, and to divert attention from this unpleasant news, he suddenly pulls out a dead cat and throws it onto the middle of the table. ( Kate Maltby, 'Hamilton' is Trump's dead cat' , CNN, November 22, 2016)

"Let us suppose you are losing an argument. The facts are overwhelmingly against you, and the more people focus on the reality the worse it is for you and your case. Your best bet in these circumstances is to perform a manoeuvre that a great campaigner describes as 'throwing a dead cat on the table, mate' There is one thing that is absolutely certain about throwing a dead cat on the table ― and I don’t mean that people will be outraged, alarmed, disgusted. That is true, but irrelevant. The key point is that everyone will shout, “Jeez, mate, there’s a dead cat on the table!” In other words, they will be talking about the dead cat ― the thing you want them to talk about ― and they will not be talking about the issue that has been causing you so much grief.’" (Boris Johnson, 'This Cap on Bankers’ Bonuses is Like a Dead Cat – Pure Distraction', The Telegraph, March 3, 2013

"Trump apparently has an endless supply of dead cats, seemingly able to conjure them from insignificant news stories and throw them on the boardroom table by way of an angry tweetstorm. The media loves this because they know that people eat it up, whether they’re Trump supporters who share his “rage” or critics who are repeatedly appalled by his antics." (Jesse Jackman, 'Trump’s ‘Dead Cats’ Have Hijacked The Mainstream Media' ,Huffington Post, November 30, 2016)

by gr8rt1 January 26, 2017

Swing a dead cat

A phrase used to describe when there are a lot of something in a small area and that running into them is unavoidable. Seems to be popular with people from the burrows of Philadelphia.

"there are so many coffee joints here that you cant swing a dead cat without hitting one."

by Daddy Long Legs September 18, 2016

dead cat hole

The spaces on a car above the front tires and below the wheel rim. Because the area heats up during the winter, stray cats will often crawl into the space and perish when unsuspecting car owners start their cars without first checking the spot.

"Her cat died after it crawled into the dead cat hole on her dad's car."

by caliali December 13, 2014

dead cat bounce

Wall Street expression describing the phenomenon of a stock or share bottoming out to near zero and then recovering with a sharp buying spree from bargain hunters: the notion being that even a dead cat will bounce if dropped from a high-enough point.

Your stock prices going up is no more than a dead-cat bounce: it doesn't have the juice to stay up.

by Bellaireco April 26, 2004

My dead cat ran over my keyboard

My dead cat ran over my keyboard is a joke mocking people who always have an excuse

Oh what now John your gonna tell me that" My dead cat ran over my keyboard" John last time you told me you could not pay your rent because my "prices are too high" even though the only thing that is high is you everybody in this god forsaken building knows that you do weed John You're four months behind on your rent just fucking pay it.

by Beanafied May 12, 2020