Definitions for catch-as-catch-can

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Spelling: [kach-uh z-kach-kan]

IPA: /ˈkætʃ əzˈkætʃˈkæn/

Catch-As-Catch-Can is a 18 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 218 anagrams from letters in catch-as-catch-can (---aaaaccccchhnstt).

Definitions for catch-as-catch-can

noun

1. a style of wrestling in which the contestants are permitted to trip, tackle, and use holds below the waist. Compare Greco-Roman (def 3).

adverb

1. without specific plan or order:

adjective

1. Also, catch-can. taking advantage of any opportunity; using any method that can be applied:

Origin of catch-as-catch-can

First recorded in 1885-90

Examples for catch-as-catch-can

"Well, catch-as-catch-can then," said the country boy, advancing toward Roger slowly.

Swords, pistols, fists, catch-as-catch-can—what would you like?

It was catch-as-catch-can in the darkness, and mostly the other fellow could and did.

Ree stipulated but one thing, as he threw off his coat and made ready, this was that the wrestling should be “catch-as-catch-can.”

Are you going to have a waltz, or is it going to be a two-step, or a catch-as-catch-can wrestling match?

Still, they all fight alike—rough and tumble, catch-as-catch-can.

It was a catch-as-catch-can match, and for an instant the two big fellows stood warily watching each other before they advanced.

Anyhow, drawled the man from catch-as-catch-can, she wont go no more.

Except in the country the old-time, catch-as-catch-can general practitioner appears to be dying out.

The men of catch-as-catch-can were incapable of a word; they were amazed beyond speech.