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Definition of Catch up

1. Verb. Reach the point where one should be after a delay. "I caught up on my homework"

2. Verb. Learn belatedly; find out about something after it happened. "I'm trying to catch up with the latest developments in molecular biology"

Definition of Catch up

1. Verb. (transitive) To pick up suddenly. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To entangle. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To provide with news. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To be reaching something that had been ahead ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive) To compensate for or make up a deficiency. ¹

6. Verb. (intransitive) To get news ¹

7. Verb. ¹

8. Noun. An act of catching up or attempting to catch up. ¹

9. Noun. An amount, a thing, or a receipt or repetition of information that enables one to catch up. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Catch Up

catch napping catch on catch one's breath catch one's drift catch out catch phrase catch phrases catch sight of catch some Z's catch some z's

catch some zs catch someone's eye catch someone napping catch the eye catch the sun catch up (current term) catch up with catch ups catch you later catch you on the flip side

catchable catchall catchalls catchcries catchcry catchdrain catchdrains catched catchen

Literary usage of Catch up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain), Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke (1901)
"Take up one, throw it up and quickly, catch up two and the falling one, put two aside, ... Same as before, only catch up four and the falling one. ..."

2. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain), New Shakspere Society (London, England), William Shakespeare (1901)
"—Take up one, throw it up and quickly, catch up two and the falling one, put two aside, ... —Same as before, only catch up four and the falling one. ..."

3. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"The familiar note of preparation, "catch up! catch up!" was now sounded from the captain's camp, and re-echoed from every division and scattered group along ..."

4. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"The familiar note of preparation, "catch up! catch up!" was now sounded from the captain's camp, and re-echoed from every division and scattered group along ..."

5. Medical lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science by Robley Dunglison (1856)
"ZOA'GRIA, from (»17, 'life,' and «yft», 'I catch up.' The saving and preservation of liit ... catch up ..."

6. Commerce of the Prairies, Or, The Journal of a Santa Fè Trader: During Eight by Josiah Gregg (1845)
"The familiar note of preparation, “catch up! catch up !“ was now sounded from the captain's camp, and re-echoed from every division and scattered group ..."

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