Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Using or making do with whatever means are available; irregular.
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- adjective idiomatic
intermittent ; only when possible or when the opportunity presents itself - adjective wrestling of a form of
amateur freestyle wrestling (catch wrestling) - adverb
ad hoc , or in any way possible
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Examples
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Shot in a catch-as-catch-can manner in 2003, the film tracks the misadventures of Jani Raappana, a 20-year-old slacker addicted to Subutex, the synthetic opiate that has replaced heroin in much of Europe and pervades the youth culture of Rovaniemi, the capital city of Finnish Lapland, north of the Arctic Circle.
Cooking Up Something Tasty Steve Dollar 2011
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Getting my foot in the door of an actual, ongoing, contemporary, catch-as-catch-can counterculture.
Portland Vagabonder [Card #8: Strength] [WORK-IN-PROGRESS] Christopher Snyder 2011
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Shot in a catch-as-catch-can manner in 2003, the film tracks the misadventures of Jani Raappana, a 20-year-old slacker addicted to Subutex, the synthetic opiate that has replaced heroin in much of Europe and pervades the youth culture of Rovaniemi, the capital city of Finnish Lapland, north of the Arctic Circle.
Cooking Up Something Tasty Steve Dollar 2011
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Reserved seating can now be booked online, another improvement from the old catch-as-catch-can seating policy.
In the Village, Bellying Up to a New Bar Jim Fusilli 2011
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TRYING TO EXERCISE ON a catch-as-catch-can basis hardly ever works.
The Life You Want Bob Greene 2010
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Later in the life of her new garden, the meal they shared was a catch-as-catch-can lunch.
Sea Escape Lynne Griffin 2010
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Jurisprudence has often been a catch-as-catch-can thing at Tulane and Broad, no more so than since the end of the thirty-year reign of District Attorney Harry Connick Sr., father of the singer.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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Later in the life of her new garden, the meal they shared was a catch-as-catch-can lunch.
Sea Escape Lynne Griffin 2010
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Put at least I'm getting paid, which is more than I've had other than catch-as-catch-can for the last two years.
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TRYING TO EXERCISE ON a catch-as-catch-can basis hardly ever works.
The Life You Want Bob Greene 2010
treeseed commented on the word catch-as-catch-can
Very old form of freestyle wrestling that originated in the British Isles, essentially means you can grab a hold anywhere you can.
January 27, 2008