English

Noun

Caturday ‎(plural Caturdays)

1. (Internet slang) Saturday, as the day of the week for posting lolcats.
   • 2007, Lev Grossman, "Lolcats Addendum: Where I Got the Story Wrong", Time, 16 July 2007:

     I had heard of Caturday when I wrote the piece, but I’d understood that it was a proto-lolcats practice that was different from the actual lolcats meme.

   • 2010, Jon Kelly & Jude Sheerin, "The strange virtual world of 4chan", BBC News, 31 August 2010:

     Lolcats - images of anthropomorphic felines captioned with mis-spelt web-speak ("im in ur bed zleepin" and so on) - made their first appearance on the site, during its regular "Caturday" slot, but went on to dominate blogs and sites the length and breadth of the internet.

   • 2012, Katherine Losse, The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network, Free Press, ISBN 9781451668254, page 148:

     When he and his wife began to have children, they nicknamed them after Internet memes like the lolcat holiday, Caturday.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:Caturday.