Usually means: Grasping or seizing something moving.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word catching:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. catching: Merriam-Webster
  2. catching: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. catching: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. catching: Collins English Dictionary
  5. catching: Vocabulary.com
  6. Catching, catching: Wordnik
  7. catching: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. catching: Wiktionary
  9. catching: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. catching: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. catching: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Catching, catching: Dictionary.com
  13. catching: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Catching: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. catching: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. catching: Rhymezone
  17. catching: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. catching: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. catching: FreeDictionary.org
  20. catching: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. catching: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. catching: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catching: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. catching: Encyclopedia
  2. Windows API Guide (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catching: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catching: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See catch as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (informal) Infectious, contagious.
adjective:  Captivating; alluring; catchy.
noun:  The action of the verb catch.

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