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catch up

alt. 1 (context transitive English) To pick up suddenly. 2 (context transitive English) To entangle. 3 (context intransitive English) To be brought up to date with news. 4 (context transitive English) To bring ''someone else'' up to date with the news. 5 (context intransitive English) To reach something that had been ahead 6 (context intransitive English) To compensate for or make up a deficiency. 7 (context intransitive English) To get news 8 (context intransitive English) To finally reach something inevitable. n. 1 An act of catching up or attempting to catch up. 2 An amount, a thing, or a receipt or repetition of information that enables one to catch up. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To pick up suddenly. 2 (context transitive English) To entangle. 3 (context intransitive English) To be brought up to date with news. 4 (context transitive English) To bring ''someone else'' up to date with the news. 5 (context intransitive English) To reach something that had been ahead 6 (context intransitive English) To compensate for or make up a deficiency. 7 (context intransitive English) To get news 8 (context intransitive English) To finally reach something inevitable.

WordNet
catch up
  1. v. reach the point where one should be after a delay; "I caught up on my homework"

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

Wikipedia
Catch Up

Catch Up was a children's television series which aired on CBC Television in Canada during the 1978-1979 season.

Although the series did not continue past its first year, its hosts would proceed to careers of international scope:

  • Margot Pinvidic continued acting on various movie and television productions (see ).
  • Catch Up's music segments were performed by the Christopher Ward Band, whose namesake would become one of MuchMusic's first VJs. Ward also became a songwriter for Alannah Myles and other prominent artists.
Catch Up (disambiguation)

Catch Up or similar terms may refer to:

Television
  • Catch Up, a 1978–1979 Canadian children's television series
  • Catch-up television, viewing past programmes via Internet television
  • The Catch-Up, talk show on Australian daytime TV
Other
  • Ketchup (the sauce), originally spelled 'catchup'
  • The catch-up effect, hypothesis that poorer countries' incomes will grow faster than rich countries'

Usage examples of "catch up".

I slammed the door after him, jumped in on my side, and we took off before the stench could catch up with us.

Nately was not in his tent either, and they did not catch up with him until the next morning when they checked into the hospital as patients after learning he had checked in with a broken nose the night before.

I missed a lot of school, but I was smart enough to catch up when I dropped back in.

I have my nights off, you know, and then I can catch up on the pastries and candy, and the hot rolls with lots of butter, and the roast pork, with crackling….

He was hospitalized for an injury which gave him a great deal of time to catch up on his reading.

If anyone could catch up, the ruler could, although he had already expressed his wish for a Federation councillor and assistance in his homeland.