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: a violently temperamental person
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: an ill-tempered woman
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Examples of hellcat in a Sentence
one of the two spinster sisters is said to be a hellcat, and the other is as sweet as can be
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Haters wrote off this Atlanta quintet as shameless Stones/Faces aping - completely missing the huge influence of Humble Pie’s Steve Marriott on Chris’ hellcat vocals.
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Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 2 Mar. 2022
Ram has blown up the performance pickup scene with its Ram 1500 TRX, a half-ton hellcat pickup boasting 702 horsepower and 650 lb.-ft.
—Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 3 Sep. 2020
In the second act, at Café Momus, the hellcat Musetta doesn’t just flirt with the crowd but pulls off her underwear and throws it
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
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Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 2 Mar. 2022
Ram has blown up the performance pickup scene with its Ram 1500 TRX, a half-ton hellcat pickup boasting 702 horsepower and 650 lb.-ft.
—Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 3 Sep. 2020
In the second act, at Café Momus, the hellcat Musetta doesn’t just flirt with the crowd but pulls off her underwear and throws it
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
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“Hellcat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hellcat. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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