how to pronounce cougar

/ˈkuɡɚ/

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cougar is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of cougar in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… alfred uganda roberts cougar player …”

meanings of cougar

noun:

An older woman who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger men, by implication a female “sexual predator".
A mountain lion; Puma concolor.

cougar frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word cougar occurs in english on average 1.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics cougar can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that cougar can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;