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one cat with more aliases than a con artist, all teeth either way
means A large tawny wild cat of the Americas (also called puma, panther, mountain lion, or catamount), or — in slang — an older woman who pursues notably younger romantic partners.
from From French 'couguar', which the naturalist Buffon adapted from earlier 'cuguacuarana', itself a mangling of a Tupi-Guaraní name from Brazil — so the word crossed an ocean and got chewed up along the way, which is fitting for a beast that answers to half a dozen names. The 'older woman' sense is recent slang, generally traced to North American usage around the turn of the 21st century, the predatory image doing all the work.
- name count
- holds Guinness record for most names: 40-plus
- can't roar
- no roar at all, just purrs and screams
- jump game
- leaps 18 feet vertically from standstill
- silent stalker
- ambushes deer five times its weight
- vast range
- roams Canada to the southern Andes
puma concolor — large wild cat species native to americas, weighs 53-100 kg
cougar town — tv series starring courteney cox, aired 2009-2015
cougar gold cheese — aged cheddar made by washington state university creamery since 1948