"cat melodeon" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1997, Michael Coady, “The Longest Puck”, in All Souls, Gallery Press, →ISBN, page 65:",
          "text": "We're fed up of\nfestivals and funerals\nand Munster Finals\nwith backs that were\ncat melodeon.",
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          "ref": "2016 April 18, “Broadband service is ‘cat melodeon'”, in The Southern Star:",
          "text": "Cllr Danny Collins (Ind) pointed out that half of West Cork doesn’t have phone coverage either, and that the situation with broadband was ‘cat melodeon’.",
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          "ref": "2019, Conor Bowman, chapter 11, in Hughie Mittman's Fear of Lawnmowers, Hachette UK, →ISBN:",
          "text": "I'm going to do something cat-melodeon wrong and say you did it and everyone will believe me.",
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        "Terrible, appalling; of very poor quality."
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        "(Ireland, informal) Terrible, appalling; of very poor quality."
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          "text": "2021 Christy Moore and Wally Page, \"Zozimus & Zimmerman\"\nThe lights went down and the crowd went cat melodeon\nWe were all revved up and ready to engage\nHaving hitch hiked all the way from Minnesota\nZimmerman was there before us on the stage"
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        "Cacophonous; raucous."
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        "(Ireland, informal) Cacophonous; raucous."
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          "word": "cat melodium"
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          "ref": "1997, Michael Coady, “The Longest Puck”, in All Souls, Gallery Press, →ISBN, page 65:",
          "text": "We're fed up of\nfestivals and funerals\nand Munster Finals\nwith backs that were\ncat melodeon.",
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          "ref": "2016 April 18, “Broadband service is ‘cat melodeon'”, in The Southern Star:",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Conor Bowman, chapter 11, in Hughie Mittman's Fear of Lawnmowers, Hachette UK, →ISBN:",
          "text": "I'm going to do something cat-melodeon wrong and say you did it and everyone will believe me.",
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        "(Ireland, informal) Cacophonous; raucous."
      ],
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