tabby
ta bee
- n a cat with a grey or tawny coat mottled with black
- n female cat
- s having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats
- The original cat that inhabited the old Toronto Stock Exchange was a tabby named Scrammy.
- Sometimes he has taken a tame tabby, such as Heavyweight Harry ("Kid") Matthews, and conned the public into believing he was a killer.
- In Paris, which plays cat to Berlin's dog, a mild tabby Cabinet was quietly brought forth last week, while German militarists and Junkers whelped a canine Cabinet (see col.