I heard this on a commercial today while I was eating lunch. It was talking about some health insurance supplement or something. And I wondered... what the heck is "cath"? I looked it up in the faithful home dictionary and came up with nothing. Nothing on the common dictionary or the OED. So here are the words that they could possibly mean.
Catharize - To purify by ceremony, or to make chemically clean.
Cathect - To charge with mental energy, to give emotional load.
Catheterize - To introduce a catheter into.
I imagine that it's a shortening of the third word... maybe Katie uses it or something, but it was just such a strange shortening when I heard it, and it could mean anything from putting the catheter in to using it for its intended purpose to, I don't know, taking a stylish drug. Like asking someone in an upscale coffee shop, while whipping my voluminous hair behind me, "You cath?"
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They're abbreviating "catheterize" when they say "cath".
And when you cath, you insert a tube into your "ahem" and drain urine.
Yum!
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