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catch-all

noun

Etymology

From catch + -all.

  1. derived from captō
  2. derived from captio
  3. derived from cachier
  4. inherited from cacchen
  5. suffixed as catch-all — “catch + all”

Definitions

  1. Any place or repository where things are placed indiscriminately or without careful…

    Any place or repository where things are placed indiscriminately or without careful thought.

    • If you're not careful, the entrance table will quickly become a catch-all for things that come in the door.
    • The category was a catch-all for items that were not filed elsewhere.
    • Cancer is a catch-all term that encompasses a wide variety of diseases.

  2. Ellipsis of catch-all term.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for catch-all. 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