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Meanings
Verb
1. to catch (North America, transitive)
2. to grab, to grasp (North America, transitive)
3. to seize (North America, slang, figuratively)
4. to be arrested or frozen (by a notion or emotion) (Quebec, figuratively, impersonal verb)
5. to surprise, to run into, to find out (someone in the act of wrongdoing, someone in hiding) (Quebec, slang, transitive)
6. to collide, to hit (Quebec, transitive)
7. to receive (Quebec, slang, transitive)
8. to understand, (figuratively) to get (a joke) (Quebec, slang, transitive)
9. to catch on or become popular, to succeed (Quebec, informal, intransitive)
10. to seduce, to have success in interpersonal relationships (Quebec, slang, idiomatic, intransitive)
11. to take or acquire something (for oneself) (Quebec, informal, reflexive)
12. to become stuck or jammed (of one object in another, used reflexively) (Quebec, informal)
13. to argue, to quarrel, to butt heads (Quebec, slang, reflexive)
14. to make out, or to make love or have sex (Quebec, slang, reflexive)
15. to fool (Louisiana, slang, transitive)
Examples20
My music isn't catching on.
He got three years of jail time.
Run, he's going to catch you!
He grasped it by the hair.
It's free! Take a few!
He grabbed his keys and then he left.