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catch-as-catch-cannoun [mass noun]1 archaic Wrestling in which all holds are permitted.Spectators at Highland Games will also have seen more esoteric styles such as catch-as-catch-can....- Wanting to know the answer for himself, on Thursday, February 23, 1905 the President arranged a private match between Professor Yamashita and a middleweight catch-as-catch-can wrestler named Joseph Grant.
2 [usually as modifier] A situation of using whatever is available: the catch-as-catch-can repair of fences...- But, since this enemy has an informal, catch-as-catch-can command structure, the military says it's finding that even the low-level operatives often have pieces of information that help complete the intelligence mosaic.
- It seems to me that this is an advantage worth hanging on to, even in this catch-as-catch-can age.
- But these sites also operate in a more catch-as-catch-can fashion, relying largely on what is either sent to them by other writers or they themselves can snag from the information vortex.
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