A cougar is a woman of a certain age who dates much younger men. The term is more common in the USA (think Demi Moore) than here in the UK - the term, mind you, not the phenomenon. I first came across the word in this sense in today's Daily Mail in one of the reader's comments to this article about Wendy Salisbury, author of The Toyboy Diaries (see Barbara's comment at 08.11 for the word 'cougar'). The Daily Mail had another article about cougars a couple of weeks ago.
The word has been around for a few years. Wikipedia says it was coined in Western Canada. There was a 2007 film called The Cougar Club; Faye Dunaway and Carrie Fisher played two of the cougars. There are also dating agencies with names like Go Cougar, Cougar Dating, Cougar Fling. I'm not posting links - I'll leave it to your imagination!
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