Skip to definition.
Get the FREE one-click dictionary software for Windows or the iPhone/iPad and Android apps


Verb: catch up
  1. Reach the point where one should be after a delay
    "I caught up on my homework"
     
  2. Learn belatedly; find out about something after it happened
    "I'm trying to catch up with the latest developments in molecular biology"

Derived forms: catches up, catching up, caught up

See also: catch

Type of: acquire, arrive at, attain, gain, hit, larn, learn, make, reach

Nearest

catch cold
catch crop
catch fire
catch it
catch on
catch one's breath
catch out
catch phrase
catch sight
catch some Z's
catch up
catch up with
catch-22
catchall
catcher
catcher's mask
catchfly
catching
catchment
catchment area
catchment basin