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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]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you cotton on to something, you understand it or realize it, especially without people telling you about it. (BRIT INFORMAL) She had already cottoned on to the fact that the nanny was not all she appeared... It wasn't until he started laughing that they cottoned on! = catch on PHRASAL VERB: V P to n, V P