Polecat (disambiguation)

Polecat (Mustelinae) is a carnivorous mammal related to the weasel. Its domesticated variety is referred to as ferret.

Polecat may also refer to:

Animals

• Skunk (Mephitidae), similar-looking but only distantly related species

Places

United States

• Polecat, Tennessee
• Polecat Landing, South Carolina
• Pole Cat Crossing, Wisconsin

Organizations or group names

• Norwest Polecats, a Rugby League club playing out of the NSW Tertiary Student Rugby League competition in Australia
• Polecat (band), a country/bluegrass/rock band from Bellingham, Washington, USA
• The Polecats, a 1980s British neo-rockabilly band
• The Polecats, a fictional gang in the 1995 video game Full Throttle

Other

• HMS Polecat
• Lockheed Martin Polecat, an unmanned aerial vehicle
• "Polecats", a basic repertoire of 12 typical barbershop songs, from "barber's pole" and perhaps "catalogue"
• A cat, nailed to post or a "pole", during the Middle Ages. A prize was given to a contestant that used their head to "batter" the animal to death.