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It is typically used to refer to a large, wild cat native to North and South America. However, it can also have a colloquial meaning to describe an older woman who is romantically interested in younger men. Examples: - The cougar prowled through the forest, searching for prey. - The zoo has a new exhibit featuring a family of cougars. - Many people believe that the term 'cougar' is derogatory and perpetuates ageist stereotypes. - Samantha's friends teased her for dating a much younger man, calling her a cougar. - The TV show "Cougar Town" follows the lives of a group of older women navigating dating and relationships.
Dictionary
cougar
noun
A mountain lion; Puma concolor.
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Puma (Puma concolor), also called mountain lion, cougar, panther (eastern U.S.), or catamount (archaic), large brownish New World cat comparable in size to the jaguar the only other large cat of the Western Hemisphere.
Although television shows such as Sex and the City and Cougar Town, which stars Courteney Cox, have helped to popularise the cougar phenomenon, Mr Gosse said older women have been "victimised by our youth-obsessed society".
I suspect the fact that this shot is accompanied by the literal sound of a cougar roar might suggest that it does not.
Now it supports but one, known, according to taste, as the cougar, puma or mountain lion.
Picky eaters, in a parable worthy of Aesop, died out whereas the less fussy cougar lived on.Mr Haupt and Dr DeSantis came to this conclusion by studying the microscopic patterns of wear on the teeth of fossil cougars, American lions and sabre-tooths (the last two being among the species that did not survive humanity's arrival).
The male cougar has a large territory that may overlap the territories of several females but is defended against other males.
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Outstanding features are the Illecillewaet Glacier, which has an area of 10 square miles (26 square km) and falls more than 3,500 feet (1,100 m) from its névé (partially compacted snow at its upper end), and the Nakimu Caves in the Cougar Valley.
It lasted only five years, but Keighley's Lawkholme Lane became and remains Cougar Park.
By keeping the game tight in the middle of Cougar Park, however, they managed to stay in touch for most of the first half, three penalties from their full-back, Pierre Van Wyk, bringing them within four points.
And in a show such as Cougar Town that's a problem: if we were already finding it hard to go along with the central conceit that Jules is over the hill at the age of 40, we can't help but struggle to believe that the toned, burnished and buffed Ms Cox, who looks closer to her mid-20s than her mid-40s, is unable to keep a man by her slimline side.
'Cougar Town' starts on 30 March at 9pm on Living TV.
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