catnapper

One who takes a short sleep or nap.

Noun

  1. One who takes a short sleep or nap.
    • Besides, I reflected, Joe might easily have become a catnapper, as so many millions of other Americans had become since Sarah Perkins, during the campaign, had made it so widely known that although the incumbent...
  2. The kidnapper of a cat.
    • Mr. Harding was contacted by the catnappers, and arrangements were made for him to pay a ransom and recover the animal. - 1999, Elane Osborn, The Cop and Calamity Jane, page 103:

Origin

From catnap + -er or blend of cat + kidnapper.

Forms

catnappers cat-napper cat napper