Definition of "catch up"

catch up

verb
third-person singular simple present catches up, present participle catching up, simple past and past participle caught up
1. (transitive) To pick up suddenly.
  Quotations
  Oscar stopped the horses and waved to Carl, who caught up his hat and ran through the melon patch to join them.
  1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!, chapter 3
2. (transitive) To entangle.
3. (intransitive) To be brought up to date with news.
4. (transitive) To bring (someone) up to date with the news.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To reach something that had been ahead.
  Quotations
  But you run / And you run to catch up with the sun / But it's sinking
  1973 March 1, Roger Waters (lyrics and music), “Time”, in The Dark Side of the Moon, performed by Pink Floyd
6. (intransitive) To compensate for or make up a deficiency.
7. (intransitive) To finally reach something inevitable.
  Quotations
  You are reminded that old age is catching up with you each time you read in the newspaper that another athlete whom you idolized when you were young just passed away.
  2008, Bardas Benetbunk, Musings of One Thousand and One Nights of Solitude, page 61
  The episode begins with a lifetime of junk food, beer and no exercise catching up with Homer in the form of painful heart contractions.
  2012 June 17, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎
noun
countable and uncountable, plural catch ups
1. Alternative spelling of catch-up

Definition of "catch up"

catch up

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