CATNAP

PRONUNCIATION: (KAT-nap)

MEANING: noun: A short, light sleep, typically in the daytime.
verb intr.: To sleep briefly or lightly.
verb tr.: To steal a cat.

ETYMOLOGY: For noun and verb intr.: Alluding to cats’ frequent short, light dozes. Earliest documented use: 1801.
For verb tr.: A blend of cat + kidnap, from kid + nap, a variant of nab. Earliest documented use: 1901.
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S.A.T. NAP - to fall asleep while studying for College Entrance exams

CAR-NAP - the last resort of the parents of an inconsolably fussy infant

CAT MAP - the lack of availablility of which, when he asked for one in the Princeton library, led Richard Feynman to disdain ever taking another biology course after finishing Comparative Anatomy (see Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman)