A relationship in which two parties closely monitor and challenge one another in a suspicious or self-protective manner, often because each party is attempting to gain an advantage over the other.

Alternative form of cat-and-mouse

A children's game in which one player (the "cat") attempts to break through a ring of players to catch another player (the "mouse") in the centre.

(nautical, traditional) Tidily tied down and secure. / (figuratively, or by extension) Properly and neatly organised or arranged.

(collectively) All; everyone. / (separately) Each one.

A depiction of a sickle crossed with a hammer, used as a symbol of communism and the Soviet Union. / (metonymically) Socialism or communism itself.

(cricket) Out by being caught by the bowler.

(Rastafari) You and I; we. / (Rastafari) Jah (God) and I.

(historical, from 1974 to 1998) A county in the West Midlands of England, formed from the short-lived merger of Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

A metropolitan county in the north-east of England, bordering County Durham and Northumberland.