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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: understand, usually after some initial difficulty; "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on" [syn: catch on, get wise, get onto, tumble, latch on, cotton on, twig, get it]
2: become popular; "This fashion caught on in Paris"

Merriam Webster's

intransitive verb Date: circa 1878 1. to become aware ; learn; also understand <didn't catch on to what was going on> 2. to become popular <this idea has already caught on>

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you catch on to something, you understand it, or realize that it is happening. He got what he could out of me before I caught on to the kind of person he'd turned into... Wait a minute! I'm beginning to catch on. PHRASAL VERB: V P to n, V P 2. If something catches on, it becomes popular. The idea has been around for ages without catching on. PHRASAL VERB: V P

Moby Thesaurus

absorb, appreciate, apprehend, ascertain, assimilate, be blooded, be hep to, be on to, be successful, be wise to, be with one, become popular, become the rage, catch, catch on to, click, come off, comprehend, conceive, connect, determine, dig, digest, farewell, fathom, find out, follow, get, get hold of, get the drift, get the idea, get the picture, go, go great guns, go off, go over, go over big, go to town, graduate, grasp, have, have it taped, hear, ken, know, learn, make a hit, master, meet with success, pass, penetrate, prevail, prosper, qualify, read, realize, savvy, see, see through, seize, seize the meaning, sense, succeed, take, take in, tumble, tumble to, understand, unearth, wise up to, work well, work wonders