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catch

English round, or simple perpetual canon, for three or more unaccompanied voices. Catches were sung by men as a popular pastime in the 16th–19th centuries. Catch texts were often humorous or ribald, and in some instances a pause in the melody in one voice was filled in by the notes and text of another, creating a pun or change of meaning, especially in the late-17th-century Restoration period.


catch
1. a game in which a ball is thrown from one player to another
2. Cricket the catching of a ball struck by a batsman before it touches the ground, resulting in him being out
3. Music a type of round popular in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, having a humorous text that is often indecent or bawdy and hard to articulate

catch [kach]
(design engineering)
A device used for fastening a door or gate and usually operated manually from only one side, for example, a latch.


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Clinton and his ilk have been riding the economic wave started by Reagan and others on the right, and while taking all the credit, have been laughing up their sleeves as Reagan still catches hell from the media - and naive folks like the letter writer eat it up.
Of course, she turns out to be a young Tennison, yet catches hell under her temporary boss, who's determined not to be perceived as a reverse chauvinist.
 
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