Kitty

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Kitty can have the following meanings:

General

• Kitty is a collection of money temporarily held until awarded to winners in a gambling event, as in a pool or poker pot. In some trick-taking games, this term refers to a group of cards that are left undealt. It may also be a source of funds to which a group of people may contribute more or less equally for the purpose of buying goods used by the group, such as a 'tea kitty' (typically in an office environment). This sense is etymologically unrelated to kitten; it instead is derived from kit.

• Kitty is also an alternative name for the small white ball or jack used as the target in lawn bowls. It is referred to in both the nominative case, i.e. kitty as well as the kitty.

Cat or Feline

Kitty is an affectionate term for kitten, or a cat in general.

• Kitty is frequently used as the name of a cat whose real name is unknown, or one without a name. Many owners even use the term with named cats.
• "Here kitty kitty" is a common phrase used to call a cat.
• Hello Kitty is a fictional anthropomorphic cat and the basis of an international franchise.
• Kitty litter is the sand-like material used to fill litter boxes.

Female name

Kitty is a female nickname, typically associated with Catherine and variants. Many real people and fictional characters use the name.

• Kitty is the name that Anne Frank gave to her diary.
• Kitty Carlisle Hart is an American singer, actress, and spokeswoman for the arts, perhaps most famous for her presence as a panelist on the game show To Tell the Truth.
• Kitty Forman is the fictional mother of the Foreman household in the American television show That '70s Show, played by Debra Jo Rupp.
• Kitty Sanchez, a fictional character on the show Arrested Development, played by Judy Greer.
• Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman is a 1940 film.
• Kitty is a 1927 novel by Warwick Deeping which was filmed and became the first British talkie in 1929.
• Kitty is a 1945 film based on a book by Rosamond Marshall about the rise of a London guttersnipe to society lady. It starred Paulette Goddard in the title role.
• Kitty is the title of a book by William Corlett about 2 dogs travelling across Spain.
• Kitty Genovese was a New York City woman who was raped and stabbed to death in 1964 among three dozen witnesses in a frequently studied criminal case.
• Kitty Kelley is an American author, journalist and biographer.
• The character Kitty Pryde from the X-Men series, who is also known as Shadowcat.
• Kitty is the drummer for New York City band Mindless Self Indulgence.
• Kitty Jones from the Bartimaeus Trilogy is a main character in the trilogy.
• Porn Stars:
• * Kitty Marieis a Caucasian American porn star with very fair skin and what is described as "strawberry-blonde" hair,
• * Kitty Yung is an Asian American porn star of Korean and Hawaiian descent born in 1970.
• * Lil Miss Kitty is a porn star of Asian descent born in 1984.

Location

Many places and things contain the name Kitty.

• Kitty Hawk is a town in Dare County, North Carolina, United States. It is famous for the first flight of the Wright Brothers.

Other proper names

• The USS Kitty Hawk is an aircraft carrier in the United States Navy, still in active service.
• "Kitty's Back" is the third song on the album The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.
• A slang term for ketamine, a recreational drug.
• Kitty is the title of a song by the band The Presidents of the United States of America
• "Kitty" can also refer to the infamous night club Kitkatclub in Berlin.

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