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What does catch on mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word catch on? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To begin to understand; to realize.
  2. (intransitive, idiomatic) To become popular; to become commonplace; to become the standard.
  3. (intransitive, New England, dated, of food) To become stuck to the cooking vessel; to brown or burn slightly.
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With traffic at a dead halt, fathers and sons got out of their cars and played catch on freeway medians.
This is bound to catch on, whether for sending back holiday postcards or sharing new pictures of a baby.
Basically, you're starting at ground zero and trying to create new characters that will catch on the way the old ones did.
For those who have never eaten hemp seeds, the shells catch on the back of your tongue, a bit like the wings on dry-roasted crickets.
English-speaking children very soon catch on to the correlation between the conceptual distinction and the distributional cues for it.
It's another difficult wreck to shot, lying along the tide with a smooth keel exposed, so the grapple has little to catch on.

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