Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
catch-all
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Congress now seems inclined to settle temporarily for a catch-all budget measure that would freeze federal spending at current levels.
▪ Despite its catch-all name, however, Docklands is far from homogeneous.
▪ In our bakery, the one catch-all word for a perfect dough is vibrant.
▪ Some of the deepest cuts are in the catch-all category called domestic discretionary spending.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
catch-all
n. Any place or repository where things are placed indiscriminately or without careful thought.
Wikipedia
Catch-all
In common use, a catchall or catch-all is a general term, or metaphoric dumping group, for a variety of similar words or meanings. For instance, a catch-all taxon aka "wastebasket taxon" is a grouping of organisms not fitting anywhere else.
Usage examples of "catch-all".
Candidates included heavy neutrinos, axions, a catch-all termed "weakly interacting massive particles," or "WIMPS," photinos, strings, superstrings, quark nuggets, none of which had been observed, but had emerged from attempts at formulating unified field theories.
It is a catch-all phrase that does not necessarily mean the person was a cocaine addict.