noun a game played by striking with a stick small piece of wood, called a cat, shaped like two cones united at their bases; tipcat.
2. kitcat ·adj designating a club in london, to which addison and steele belonged;
so called from christopher cat, a pastry cook, who served the club with mutton pies.
3. kitcat ·adj designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar size, viz., twenty-right or twenty-nine inches by thirty-six;
so called because that size was adopted by sir godfrey kneller for the portraits he painted of the members of the kitcat club.