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catch
noun- a person who is considered matrimonially or romantically desirable UK, 1749
- Andy was very good-looking. He was a catch. That’s what we called it in my day. — Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues, p. 27, 1998
- a prostitute who has been recruited to work for a pimp US
- It was time for me to get another good catch and I found this edge full of fine whores. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 74, 1973
- in Keno, the number of winning numbers that a player has marked US
- — John Mechigian, Encyclopedia of Keno, p. 111, 1972
- a hidden condition or consequence US, 1855
- What’s the catch? — New Jack City, 1990
- You’re certain there must be a catch, but he [Tony Blair] looks so reassuring[.] — Guardian, 2 October 2003
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