cat

To gossip in a catty manner.

A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.

To apply the cat command to (one or more files).

To go wandering at night.

To hoist (an anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.

To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.

Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous.

To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.