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Cotton on Moderate

Cotton on has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

understand, usually after some initial difficulty

"She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on"

2

To realize; come to understand.

See Also
understand realize come cop on cotton to cotton on to
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
grok
Rhyming Words
in on go on pin on let on not on hop on man on run on tie on mid on put on set on try on sit on bet on get on yak on fly on hot on act on
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