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catch wreck

verb

Etymology

From catch + recognition where the word recognition is abbreviated and re-spelled according to eye dialect as wreck.

  1. derived from recognitiōnem
  2. derived from recognicion
  3. inherited from recognicion
  4. formed as catch wreck — “catch + recognition”

Definitions

  1. To gain respect.

    • They said it was some girls and boys from the Perry's who came through and caught wreck with the Downtown boys and they girls.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for catch wreck. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA