Usually means: Gradually understand or realize something.
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  1. cotton on: Merriam-Webster
  2. cotton on: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cotton on: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cotton on: Vocabulary.com
  5. cotton on: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. cotton on: Wiktionary
  7. cotton on: Dictionary.com
  8. Cotton On: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. cotton on: Rhymezone
  10. cotton on: FreeDictionary.org
  11. cotton on: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. cotton on: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. cotton on: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. cotton on: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cotton on: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. Cotton on: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cotton on)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To realize; come to understand.

Similar:
get onto, catch on, latch on, tumble, get it, twig, cotton on to, cotton onto, cop on, be on to, more...

Opposite:
dislike, reject, oppose, dissent

Phrases:
cotton on to, Cotton On Group, more...

Adjectives:
be, takeaway, saught, going, accostable, overture, onz, set, even, nait, like

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Similar:
get onto, catch on, latch on, tumble, get it, twig, cotton on to, cotton onto, cop on, be on to, more...

Opposite:
dislike, reject, oppose, dissent

Phrases:
cotton on to, Cotton On Group, more...

Adjectives:
be, takeaway, saught, going, accostable, overture, onz, set, even, nait, like



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