Cheshire cat (English, name)
expansion: the Cheshire cat (plural Cheshire cats)
Senses:
glosses: A fictional cat with a broad fixed grin, made popular by Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
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glosses: A technique that involves hiding a class's data behind a pointer, so that the code remains binary-compatible even after future changes to members and functionality.
tags: attributive
Forms:
form: the Cheshire cat
tags: canonical
form: Cheshire cats
tags: plural