tv. to see or listen to something. (More specific than the colloquial sense, to manage to hear something.) : Did you catch that radio program about cancer last night?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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catch at
Snatch, grasp, as in The beggars kept catching at their coats. [c. 1600] Also see grasp at straws.
