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  "type": "wiki",
  "pronunciations": {
    "phonetic": [
      "k\u00e6\u02a7 \u0259p"
    ]
  },
  "meansorg": {
    "typelist": [
      {
        "name": "Verb",
        "meanlist": [
          {
            "mean": "(transitive) To pick up suddenly.\n1913,  Willa Cather,  O Pioneers!, chapter 3:Oscar stopped the horses and waved to Carl, who caught up his hat and ran through the melon patch to join them."
          },
          {
            "mean": "(transitive) To entangle.\nThe speaker wires have got caught up with the wires from the lights."
          },
          {
            "mean": "(intransitive) To be brought up to date with news.\nI hadn't seen her for so long. It was great to catch up."
          },
          {
            "mean": "(transitive) To bring (someone) up to date with the news.\nAfter Alice's vacation, her boss caught her up on policy changes."
          },
          {
            "mean": "(transitive, intransitive) To reach something that had been ahead.\nRose was three seconds behind, but managed to catch up with the race leader and eventually won.\nI'll go ahead and you can catch me up later.\n1973 March 1,  Roger Waters (lyrics and music),  \u201cTime\u201d, in  The Dark Side of the Moon, performed by Pink Floyd:But you run / And you run to catch up with the sun / But it's sinking"
          },
          {
            "mean": "(intransitive) To compensate for or make up a deficiency."
          },
          {
            "mean": "(intransitive) To finally reach something inevitable.\n2012 June 17,  Nathan Rabin,  \u201cTV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): \u201cHomer\u2019s Triple Bypass\u201d (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)\u201d, in  The Onion AV Club\u200e:The episode begins with a lifetime of junk food, beer and no exercise catching up with Homer in the form of painful heart contractions."
          }
        ]
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          {
            "mean": "Alternative spelling of catch-up"
          }
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