shoot the cat

English

Verb

shoot the cat (third-person singular simple present shoots the cat, present participle shooting the cat, simple past and past participle shot the cat)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) To vomit.
   • 2013, Anita Mills, Miss Gordon's Mistake:

     “ […] I am telling you the man is as sick as a— a—”
     “A dog,” Roland supplied. “Shot the cat twice after we got him to bed.”

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary