Usually means: Strategic pursuit between predator, prey.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word cat and mouse:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. cat and mouse: Merriam-Webster
  2. cat and mouse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cat-and-mouse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cat-and-mouse, cat-and-mouse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cat and mouse: Vocabulary.com
  6. cat-and-mouse, cat and mouse: Wiktionary
  7. cat-and-mouse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. cat and mouse: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. cat-and-mouse, cat and mouse: Dictionary.com
  10. Cat and Mouse (Grimm), Cat and Mouse (James Patterson novel), Cat and Mouse (The Twilight Zone), Cat and Mouse (novel), Cat and Mouse (novella), Cat and mouse (disambiguation), Cat and mouse (playground game), Cat and mouse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. cat and mouse: Rhymezone
  12. cat and mouse: FreeDictionary.org
  13. cat and mouse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. cat-and-mouse, cat and mouse: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cat-and-mouse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cat-and-mouse: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cat-and-mouse: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cat and mouse: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Cat and mouse: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cat and Mouse: Card Games

Definitions from Wiktionary (cat and mouse)

noun:  A relationship in which two parties closely monitor and challenge one another in a suspicious or self-protective manner, often because each party is attempting to gain an advantage over the other.
noun:  A form of attack in which the attacker toys with the victim by inflicting minor damage or letting the victim have futile hopes of escape before finally finishing the victim off.
noun:  A children's game in which one player (the "cat") attempts to break through a ring of players to catch another player (the "mouse") in the centre.
verb:  Alternative form of cat-and-mouse [To engage in a game of cat and mouse.]

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