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Definition of Catch on
1. Verb. Understand, usually after some initial difficulty. "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on"
Generic synonyms: Apprehend, Compass, Comprehend, Dig, Get The Picture, Grasp, Grok, Savvy
2. Verb. Become popular. "This fashion caught on in Paris"
Definition of Catch on
1. Verb. (idiomatic) to begin to understand; to realize or detect ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic) to become popular; to become commonplace; to become the standard ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Catch On
Literary usage of Catch on
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dante and His Circle: With the Italian Poets Preceding Him (1100-1200-1300 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dante Alighieri (1905)
"CATCH. On a Fine Day. " BE stirring, girls ! we ought to have a run : Look, did
you ever see so fine a day ? And rocks and reels and wools: Now don't be ..."
2. Dante and His Circle: With the Italian Poets Preceding Him. (1100-1200-1300 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dante Alighieri (1892)
"... Ill CATCH. On a Wet Day. As I walked thinking through a little grove, Some
girls that gathered flowers came passing me, Saying, " Look here ! look there ..."
3. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain), Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke (1901)
"Throw that one up, and while it is in the air pick up one of those you did not
catch on the back of hand, and catch the one thrown up. ..."
4. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain), New Shakspere Society (London, England), William Shakespeare (1901)
"Throw that one up, and while it is in the air pick up one of those you did not
catch on the back of hand, and catch the one thrown up. ..."
5. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"catch on, verb (colloquial). — To understand ; to grasp in meaning ; to apprehend ;
to attach or fix oneself to ; to quickly seize an opportunity and turn ..."
6. The Operative Mechanic, and British Machinist: Being a Practical Display of by John Nicholson (1826)
"On the upper part of the figure is the remainder of the apparatus, consisting of
a catch on the upper side ot the catr'i-box 13; the worm on a loose round ..."
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