This is a straight up poll. Story to come at 11. 
This kind of kitty.
I have one on my desk. He’s orange.
Tabby is a general type of pattern, rather than a specific coloration; the pattern features stripes or spots and is nearly always characterized by an “M” shaped pattern on the forehead.
Interesting trivia: Orange tabbies are nearly always males.
Stripey cats.
I somehow wound up with two of 'em.
Stripes.
Stripes, spots or blotches (the latter in the so called butterfly pattern). The hairs are either brindled or black, making the patterns. Abyssinian cats having evenly ticked hairs are another variant.
Stripes, forehead M, eyeliner, etc. It’s not a word that can just mean whatever you want it to mean or something. These are my cats - two of them are tabbies, and one is not.
stripes
Striped kitties. Orange tabbies, nearly always male as stated, are also nearly always cuddlebugs.
Stripes. (When Gypsy was fixed, and had to have her belly shaved, even her SKIN was striped. Sorry, I don’t have any pictures of Gypsy. She’s a silver tabby-as opposed to grey-very light)
Oh, and I have an orange female. (1 in 400, I was told.) Buffy is Gypsy’s sister.
In general, a striped cat, either of the mackeral tabby or the classic tabby pattern.
Specifically, I’d be most likely to call a cat a tabby is he was brindle (brown) with grey flecks and black strips, usually a mackeral tabby. Sometimes, tabby cats have white chins or mittens.
Orange cats of the type referenced here are called “Striped cats” pronounced with two syllables for striped.
Striped, swirled or ( rarely ) spotted.
And all orange cats are tabbies :). The orange gene overrides the non-tabby gene.
Orange males also seem to be statistically larger than non-orange males and purportedly ( though it seems a hard thing to measure ) feral orange males are statistically more aggressive than non-orange males. Meanwhile orange females are statistically smaller than non-orange females.
Orange cats are neat, if ridiculously goofy.
A stripey orange cat.
I am in no way a cat expert. To me, “tabby” is a catch-all adjective for cats with stripes.
How could I not have mentioned my two tabby boys?
Housecat with stripes.
Brownish-gray with black stripes – like this one.
Whereas calico(e)s are always female, yes? Are the genes for coat color coded onto the sex chromosomes in some weird way?
Stripey cats, at least on their legs, forehead, and tail. Coincidentally, I just happen to have two examples. Kitty is the orange mackerel tabby and Zissou is the spotted grey.
