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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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Some commentators believe soccer is fundamentally foreign to the American psyche and will never catch on.
With traffic at a dead halt, fathers and sons got out of their cars and played catch on freeway medians.
Tennis players are the ones that catch on to beach volleyball the fastest because of the hand-eye coordination.
Although iTV will take some time to catch on, this will most probably move in line with the quality and quantity of the service provided.
It's another difficult wreck to shot, lying along the tide with a smooth keel exposed, so the grapple has little to catch on.
This is bound to catch on, whether for sending back holiday postcards or sharing new pictures of a baby.

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