Literally. It's apparently how they drink. Someone did research on it. Sounds a bit of a waste, until you watch this, then it's actually kind of cool.
The cat curls the tip of its tongue underneath itself and then lightly touches the liquid with the tongue's surface. It then jerks its tongue up, snapping a column of water up along with it. The cat drinks the stream before gravity has a chance to pull it back down—a process it can perform four times a second.
(Hat tip, HuffPost Hill)
