catch-upn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈkatʃˌʌp/, U.S.

/ˈkɛtʃˌəp/,

/ˈkætʃˌəp/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: to catch up at catch v. Phrasal verbs 1.

Etymology: < to catch up at catch v. Phrasal verbs 1. Compare earlier catching up n.

A. n.

†1. Perhaps: an interruption or irregularity in the rhythm of a passage of music. Perhaps cf. to catch up 4 at catch v. Phrasal verbs 1, and later catchy adj. 4. Obsolete. rare.In quot. with reference to a sequence of music that represents the staggering motion of a drunk person.

ΚΠ

1831 Tatler 8 Feb. 539/1 What a capital lurch there is in the first phrase [of the music], and which every now and then occurs during the scene! There is a catch up in the passage as if he stumbled.

†2. Something that has been lifted or picked up hastily. Cf. to catch up 2a at catch v. Phrasal verbs 1. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > seizing > catching or capture > [noun] > that which is caught or captured

fanga1400

hale1572

catch1609

taking1855

catch-up1879

1879 J. T. Fields Verses for Few Friends 23 What impelled me then to snatch up In my arms this ghostly catch-up, Who can tell?

3. An act or the action of catching up, drawing level, or achieving parity with a person or thing; an increase, esp. of prices, wages, sales, etc., to a particular level or amount, typically following a period of stagnation.

ΚΠ

1885 Mich. Farmer Sept. 4/4 This may be a sort of final flurry, and..demand may become more cautious, awaiting the catch up in the goods trade.

1918 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 32 645 The assumed catch-up in prices must somehow change precipitately back into a lag.

1932 Pittsburgh Courier 20 Feb. ii. 4/2 The Ohioans began to click near the end of the first half but it was then a game of catch-up for the visitors.

1974 N.Y. Times 7 Dec. 28/1 To redress some of the inequalities.., the new agency would have flexibility in ordering price rollbacks or authorizing wage catch-ups.

2000 Guardian 18 Apr. (Educ. section) 7/1 A long-overdue catch-up in the number of teachers employed in state schools.

4. The act of meeting or talking with someone whom one has not seen or spoken to for some time in order to find out what he or she has been doing. Also: an informal meeting or conversation, in a social or business context, in which people find out or are briefed about things that have happened since they last met or spoke. Cf. to catch up 7b at catch v. Phrasal verbs 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > other types of conversation

diabologuea1713

giff-gaff1787

by-dialogue1817

question and answer1817

war-talk1831

fast talk1866

heart-to-heart1904

pseudo-conversation1926

team talk1947

psychodrama1952

catch-up1972

society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > a meeting > types of

morn-speechOE

court1154

morrow-speech1183

conventicle1382

congregation1389

plenary session1483

journeyc1500

night school1529

assession1560

general meeting1565

family meeting1638

panegyris1647

desk1691

collegea1703

annual general meeting1725

mass meeting1733

panegyre1757

plenum1772

family council1797

coterie1805

Round Table1830

GA1844

indignation meeting1848

protest meeting1852

hui1858

primary1859

Quaker meeting1861

mothers' meeting1865

sit-down1868

town hall1912

jamboree1919

protest rally1921

con1940

face-to-face1960

morning prayers1961

struggle meeting1966

be-in1967

love-in1967

plenary1969

catch-up1972

rencontre1975

schmoozefest1976

1972 Assembly (Assoc. of Graduates, U.S. Milit. Acad.) Dec. 57/1 Kay and I visited our son Jim in the Bay Area for 6 wks not long ago, and while there saw many Classmates and wives..and a real good catchup on the news.

1992 Guardian (Weekend section) 20 June 8/1 ‘Poor Clive!’ my mother exclaimed yesterday, after one of her extensive phone ‘catch-ups’ with former newspaper colleagues. ‘His little boy..wakes up regularly every hour’.

2008 K. Lockett Work/Life Balance for Dummies x. 195 Even though you love spending time with your friends, the thought of..trying to arrange a catch-up seems like too much hard work.

2014 S. Rimington Close Call xlv. 238 The first of the day's meetings, a catch-up with Peggy. The three of them had sat in Liz's office while Peggy pulled together the different strands of the investigation.

5. Chiefly British = catch-up television n. at Compounds.

ΚΠ

2008 @gbay 23 Mar. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Lovin the new series of Dirty Sexy Money—hoping it'll be on catch up next week.

2013 Radio Times 2 Nov. (South/West ed.) 43/1 I sort of prefer watching Bake Off on catch-up anyway.

2017 Tel. & Argus (Bradford) (Nexis) 8 Dec. I find it heartening that in this age of catch-up and binge watching, the collective TV experience isn't quite a thing of the past.

B. adj. (attributive).

1. Of or relating to catching up; characterized by or necessary for catching up.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > rate of motion > [adjective] > overtaking

overtaking1694

catch-up1879

1879 Zion's Herald 15 May 158/2 For the waiting or spare moments,..I always have some ‘catch up work’.

1911 N.Y. Times 12 Feb. v. 7/2 Of the seventy-six educators,..fourteen have special ‘catch-up’ classes, and ten have vacation school classes for non-promoted children.

1932 Pittsburgh Courier 2 Jan. ii. 5/5 It was a ‘catch up game’ for the W. P. Young's proteges, but they played admirably and gamely in the face of such stern opposition.

1967 Jrnl. Pediatrics 70 518/1 An improved or normal growth rate may occur, but there is usually not much ‘catch-up’ growth to correct for the past deficit.

1981 Guardian 25 Aug. 1/4 Workers are to seek a catch-up pay rise to undo the erosion of their living standards by three years of single figure settlements.

2016 D. Shilling Compl. Guide to Human Resources & Law ii. iv. 60 Participants..who got a late start on retirement planning, even if they make catch-up contributions..could not save as much.

2. Designating an informal meeting or conversation, in a social or business context, in which people find out or are briefed about things that have happened since they last met or spoke.

ΚΠ

1949 Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram 20 Mar. (Home ed.) d12/3 Trudy and Harold Stark were in town for too few days. But they did have time for quick catch-up visits with their many friends.

1977 N.Y. Times 6 Nov. xxi. 1/4 When Miss Palmer does come home.., catch-up chats with her mother..are as likely to be about..lawsuits as..family news.

1981 MIS Q. 5 56 Long meetings dealing with a number of issues. In some cases these were general ‘catch up’ meetings with immediate subordinates.

2017 T. Dufu Drop Ball iv. xvii. 202 I also love..marathon catch-up phone calls with girlfriends. Remember when we used to talk to our friends for hours on the phone?

3. Chiefly British. Of or relating to catch-up television.In quot. 1999: a service in which television programmes are rebroadcast shortly after they were originally aired.

ΚΠ

1999 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 29 Apr. The channel will offer a ‘catch up’ service for viewers, showing day-after repeats of ITV favourites.]

2005 Sunday Tel. 22 May (Business section) 6/6 We will also take this opportunity to determine whether there is a market for a catch-up service.

2008 Financial Times 4 Dec. 23/2 Kangaroo has always maintained that catch-up content was critical to the success of the venture.

2018 A. N. Smith Storytelling Industries iii. 78 As Netflix's chief content officer Ted Sarandos acknowledges, the service will ‘always have a place..for catch up programming that originates on other networks’.

Phrases

colloquial (originally U.S. Sport). to play catch-up: to make an effort to keep up with or equal an opponent, competitor, or rival when in a losing position or having fallen behind.

ΚΠ

1924 Chicago Defender 23 Feb. i. 10/7 Morris Brown..took the lead at once, and Clark was playing catch-up at the end of the game.

1939 N.Y. Amsterdam News 14 Oct. 15/7 The Republicans..have to play catch up to the Democrats, who..have handed out more jobs and more relief to Negroes.

1954 Pittsburgh Courier 4 Sept. ii. 4/1 Florida, after trailing by four touchdowns, played catch-up with the Prairie View reserves and ended up losing, 33-27.

1980 R. Lee China Jrnl. i. 11 China is now having to play catch-up, for in a world of change, to stay put is to fall behind.

1990 Daily Express 21 July 48/2 Woosnam matched his closest rivals for much of the day, but three dropped shots over the last four holes left him playing catch-up.

2013 F. Lamb Industr. Automation p. xiii I was forced to play catch-up to keep up with my student peers who came out of high schools..with some calculus and physics experience.

Compounds

catch-up television n. (also catch-up tv) chiefly British a mode of television in which viewers can use a smart television, computer, etc., to watch any of a range of recently broadcast programmes via services operated by broadcasters for this purpose.In quot. 1996: the name of a proposed television channel dedicated to rebroadcasting recently aired television programmes.

ΚΠ

1996 Daily Express 17 Aug. 15 An internal BBC report has named the channel Catch-Up TV and says it will show ‘instant repeats’ of BBC1 and BBC2 programmes.]

2001 Guardian 5 Feb. (Media section) 10/1 Take the idea of ‘catch-up TV’. This will be when a channel offers viewers the chance to watch a programme they missed first time round.

2009 D. P. Marshall in G. Turner & J. Tay Television Stud. after TV iv. 44 Increasingly, television websites are now designed for ‘catch-up’ television.

2017 Courier Mail (Queensland, Austral.) (Nexis) 13 July 9 She said catch-up television posed a problem for parents because ‘children often bragged to their peers about inappropriate content they had watched’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	catch-up
释义	catch-upn.adj. Brit. /ˈkatʃˌʌp/, U.S. /ˈkɛtʃˌəp/, /ˈkætʃˌəp/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: to catch up at catch v. Phrasal verbs 1. Etymology: < to catch up at catch v. Phrasal verbs 1. Compare earlier catching up n. A. n. †1. Perhaps: an interruption or irregularity in the rhythm of a passage of music. Perhaps cf. to catch up 4 at catch v. Phrasal verbs 1, and later catchy adj. 4. Obsolete. rare.In quot. with reference to a sequence of music that represents the staggering motion of a drunk person. ΚΠ 1831 Tatler 8 Feb. 539/1 What a capital lurch there is in the first phrase [of the music], and which every now and then occurs during the scene! There is a catch up in the passage as if he stumbled. †2. Something that has been lifted or picked up hastily. Cf. to catch up 2a at catch v. Phrasal verbs 1. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > seizing > catching or capture > [noun] > that which is caught or captured fanga1400 hale1572 catch1609 taking1855 catch-up1879 1879 J. T. Fields Verses for Few Friends 23 What impelled me then to snatch up In my arms this ghostly catch-up, Who can tell? 3. An act or the action of catching up, drawing level, or achieving parity with a person or thing; an increase, esp. of prices, wages, sales, etc., to a particular level or amount, typically following a period of stagnation. ΚΠ 1885 Mich. Farmer Sept. 4/4 This may be a sort of final flurry, and..demand may become more cautious, awaiting the catch up in the goods trade. 1918 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 32 645 The assumed catch-up in prices must somehow change precipitately back into a lag. 1932 Pittsburgh Courier 20 Feb. ii. 4/2 The Ohioans began to click near the end of the first half but it was then a game of catch-up for the visitors. 1974 N.Y. Times 7 Dec. 28/1 To redress some of the inequalities.., the new agency would have flexibility in ordering price rollbacks or authorizing wage catch-ups. 2000 Guardian 18 Apr. (Educ. section) 7/1 A long-overdue catch-up in the number of teachers employed in state schools. 4. The act of meeting or talking with someone whom one has not seen or spoken to for some time in order to find out what he or she has been doing. Also: an informal meeting or conversation, in a social or business context, in which people find out or are briefed about things that have happened since they last met or spoke. Cf. to catch up 7b at catch v. Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > other types of conversation diabologuea1713 giff-gaff1787 by-dialogue1817 question and answer1817 war-talk1831 fast talk1866 heart-to-heart1904 pseudo-conversation1926 team talk1947 psychodrama1952 catch-up1972 society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > a meeting > types of morn-speechOE court1154 morrow-speech1183 conventicle1382 congregation1389 plenary session1483 journeyc1500 night school1529 assession1560 general meeting1565 family meeting1638 panegyris1647 desk1691 collegea1703 annual general meeting1725 mass meeting1733 panegyre1757 plenum1772 family council1797 coterie1805 Round Table1830 GA1844 indignation meeting1848 protest meeting1852 hui1858 primary1859 Quaker meeting1861 mothers' meeting1865 sit-down1868 town hall1912 jamboree1919 protest rally1921 con1940 face-to-face1960 morning prayers1961 struggle meeting1966 be-in1967 love-in1967 plenary1969 catch-up1972 rencontre1975 schmoozefest1976 1972 Assembly (Assoc. of Graduates, U.S. Milit. Acad.) Dec. 57/1 Kay and I visited our son Jim in the Bay Area for 6 wks not long ago, and while there saw many Classmates and wives..and a real good catchup on the news. 1992 Guardian (Weekend section) 20 June 8/1 ‘Poor Clive!’ my mother exclaimed yesterday, after one of her extensive phone ‘catch-ups’ with former newspaper colleagues. ‘His little boy..wakes up regularly every hour’. 2008 K. Lockett Work/Life Balance for Dummies x. 195 Even though you love spending time with your friends, the thought of..trying to arrange a catch-up seems like too much hard work. 2014 S. Rimington Close Call xlv. 238 The first of the day's meetings, a catch-up with Peggy. The three of them had sat in Liz's office while Peggy pulled together the different strands of the investigation. 5. Chiefly British = catch-up television n. at Compounds. ΚΠ 2008 @gbay 23 Mar. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Lovin the new series of Dirty Sexy Money—hoping it'll be on catch up next week. 2013 Radio Times 2 Nov. (South/West ed.) 43/1 I sort of prefer watching Bake Off on catch-up anyway. 2017 Tel. & Argus (Bradford) (Nexis) 8 Dec. I find it heartening that in this age of catch-up and binge watching, the collective TV experience isn't quite a thing of the past. B. adj. (attributive). 1. Of or relating to catching up; characterized by or necessary for catching up. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > [adjective] > overtaking overtaking1694 catch-up1879 1879 Zion's Herald 15 May 158/2 For the waiting or spare moments,..I always have some ‘catch up work’. 1911 N.Y. Times 12 Feb. v. 7/2 Of the seventy-six educators,..fourteen have special ‘catch-up’ classes, and ten have vacation school classes for non-promoted children. 1932 Pittsburgh Courier 2 Jan. ii. 5/5 It was a ‘catch up game’ for the W. P. Young's proteges, but they played admirably and gamely in the face of such stern opposition. 1967 Jrnl. Pediatrics 70 518/1 An improved or normal growth rate may occur, but there is usually not much ‘catch-up’ growth to correct for the past deficit. 1981 Guardian 25 Aug. 1/4 Workers are to seek a catch-up pay rise to undo the erosion of their living standards by three years of single figure settlements. 2016 D. Shilling Compl. Guide to Human Resources & Law ii. iv. 60 Participants..who got a late start on retirement planning, even if they make catch-up contributions..could not save as much. 2. Designating an informal meeting or conversation, in a social or business context, in which people find out or are briefed about things that have happened since they last met or spoke. ΚΠ 1949 Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram 20 Mar. (Home ed.) d12/3 Trudy and Harold Stark were in town for too few days. But they did have time for quick catch-up visits with their many friends. 1977 N.Y. Times 6 Nov. xxi. 1/4 When Miss Palmer does come home.., catch-up chats with her mother..are as likely to be about..lawsuits as..family news. 1981 MIS Q. 5 56 Long meetings dealing with a number of issues. In some cases these were general ‘catch up’ meetings with immediate subordinates. 2017 T. Dufu Drop Ball iv. xvii. 202 I also love..marathon catch-up phone calls with girlfriends. Remember when we used to talk to our friends for hours on the phone? 3. Chiefly British. Of or relating to catch-up television.In quot. 1999: a service in which television programmes are rebroadcast shortly after they were originally aired. ΚΠ 1999 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 29 Apr. The channel will offer a ‘catch up’ service for viewers, showing day-after repeats of ITV favourites.] 2005 Sunday Tel. 22 May (Business section) 6/6 We will also take this opportunity to determine whether there is a market for a catch-up service. 2008 Financial Times 4 Dec. 23/2 Kangaroo has always maintained that catch-up content was critical to the success of the venture. 2018 A. N. Smith Storytelling Industries iii. 78 As Netflix's chief content officer Ted Sarandos acknowledges, the service will ‘always have a place..for catch up programming that originates on other networks’. Phrases colloquial (originally U.S. Sport). to play catch-up: to make an effort to keep up with or equal an opponent, competitor, or rival when in a losing position or having fallen behind. ΚΠ 1924 Chicago Defender 23 Feb. i. 10/7 Morris Brown..took the lead at once, and Clark was playing catch-up at the end of the game. 1939 N.Y. Amsterdam News 14 Oct. 15/7 The Republicans..have to play catch up to the Democrats, who..have handed out more jobs and more relief to Negroes. 1954 Pittsburgh Courier 4 Sept. ii. 4/1 Florida, after trailing by four touchdowns, played catch-up with the Prairie View reserves and ended up losing, 33-27. 1980 R. Lee China Jrnl. i. 11 China is now having to play catch-up, for in a world of change, to stay put is to fall behind. 1990 Daily Express 21 July 48/2 Woosnam matched his closest rivals for much of the day, but three dropped shots over the last four holes left him playing catch-up. 2013 F. Lamb Industr. Automation p. xiii I was forced to play catch-up to keep up with my student peers who came out of high schools..with some calculus and physics experience. Compounds catch-up television n. (also catch-up tv) chiefly British a mode of television in which viewers can use a smart television, computer, etc., to watch any of a range of recently broadcast programmes via services operated by broadcasters for this purpose.In quot. 1996: the name of a proposed television channel dedicated to rebroadcasting recently aired television programmes. ΚΠ 1996 Daily Express 17 Aug. 15 An internal BBC report has named the channel Catch-Up TV and says it will show ‘instant repeats’ of BBC1 and BBC2 programmes.] 2001 Guardian 5 Feb. (Media section) 10/1 Take the idea of ‘catch-up TV’. This will be when a channel offers viewers the chance to watch a programme they missed first time round. 2009 D. P. Marshall in G. Turner & J. Tay Television Stud. after TV iv. 44 Increasingly, television websites are now designed for ‘catch-up’ television. 2017 Courier Mail (Queensland, Austral.) (Nexis) 13 July 9 She said catch-up television posed a problem for parents because ‘children often bragged to their peers about inappropriate content they had watched’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1831
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