cat’s ass n.1
1. (also rat’s ass) anything exceptional or superlative.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1973) 33: jesus christ, it’s a catsass sitting there. | |
| Come Monday Morning 36: Well, if that ain’t the cat’s ass ...! Russ Simpson, Jr., posted! | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Foxes (1980) 174: If I tell her I love her, she keeps saying I must be high ... isn’t that the rat’s ass. | |
| More Tales of the City (1984) 230: I walked [...] Ain’t that the cat’s ass? | |
| 🌐 Brian is also sporting a polypropylene shirt. Polypro is the cat’s ass for long underwear. It wicks moisture quickly and insulates even when wet (like fleece). |
2. a superior person or someone who poses as such.
| in DARE. | |
| New Girls (1982) 54: My dear, she thinks I’m the cat’s ass. Which I am, of course. | |
![[Can]](/static/img/flags/can.png "Canada") | Cat’s Eye (1989) 258: We thought we were the cat’s ass. I see kids that age now and I think: brats! | |
 | Eng. Idioms 🌐 the cat’s ass the best, number one, the bee’s knees. Since Val won the beauty contest, she thinks she’s the cat’s ass! |
In phrases
(US) to care about someone or something; usu. in negative.
| Bureau-Rats 🌐 Do you think I asked you to come here today because I give a cat’s ass about your mind? |
In exclamations
an excl. of dismissal or disbelief.
| (con. WWII) Damned Wear Wings 220: ‘You mean you’re not going after Ploesti? Just once more?’ ‘In a cat’s ass.’. |