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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. understand, usually after some initial difficulty;
- Example: "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on"
[syn: catch on, get wise, get onto, tumble, latch on, cotton on, twig, get it]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cotton on v 1: understand, usually after some initial difficulty; "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on" [syn: catch on, get wise, get onto, tumble, latch on, cotton on, twig, get it]