Usually means: Discovered while committing the deed.
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We found 10 dictionaries that define the word caught in the act:

General (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. caught in the act: Merriam-Webster
  2. Caught In The Act, Caught in the Act (Commodores album), Caught in the Act (Modern Family), Caught in the Act (Redgum album), Caught in the Act (Styx album), Caught in the Act (The Goodies), Caught in the Act (The Outer Limits), Caught in the Act (boy band), Caught in the Act (group), Caught in the Act: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. Caught In The Act: A to Z list of the most popular idioms
  4. Caught in the Act: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Caught in the Act: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Caught in the Act: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Caught in the Act: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. caught in the act: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Caught in the act, Caught in the Act: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (Caught in the Act)

noun:  a live double album by Styx, released in 1984.
noun:  the second studio album by The Commodores, released in 1975 (see 1975 in music).
noun:  Grand Funk Railroad's second live album and was released in August 1975 by Capitol Records as a double album.
noun:  (abbreviated to C.I.T.A.) a half English, half Dutch boy band.
noun:  the second live album released by Canadian jazz singer Michael Bublé on November 15, 2005.
noun:  the first live album by Australian folk group Redgum, released in May 1983 on Epic Records.
noun:  "Caught in the Act" is the 13th episode of the second season of the American television comedy series, Modern Family and the 37th overall episode of the series.
noun:  the third studio album by Australian recording artist Debbie Byrne.
noun:  a 1931 German comedy film directed by Hanns Schwarz and Georges Tréville and starring Blanche Montel, Henri Garat, and Ralph Arthur Roberts.
noun:  the debut album by Australian singer-songwriter Didirri, released on 4 August 2023 through Liberation Music.
noun:  a 1941 American comedy crime film directed by Jean Yarbrough and starring Henry Armetta, Iris Meredith and Inez Palange.


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