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catch a packet en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, slang) To be fired upon.
    • While here last night we caught a packet, and some shrapnel came into our house here. However, no casualties in cars or men. 1956, George Rock, The History of the American Field Service, 1920-1955, page 436:
    • From then onwards about every minute we caught a packet from somewhere: 'Crash! Rattle! Bump! Thump!' Eventually there was an even worse one than usual which knocked us all off our perches; […] 2016, Peter Hart, Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great War:

Forms

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catches a packet Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
catching a packet Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
caught a packet Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
caught a packet Tense=Past lexicographic