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catch feelings

catch feelings verb: to suddenly begin to feel romantic attraction (towards).

Verb

catch feelings (third-person singular simple present catches feelings, present participle catching feelings, simple past and past participle caught feelings)

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic, intransitive) To suddenly begin to feel romantic attraction (towards).
    • The deal was that if anyone started catching feelings, he could throw up a stop sign and the other would honor it.2007, Marissa Monteilh, Dr. Feelgood, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 27

Forms of catch feelings

third-person singular presentcatches feelings
present participlecatching feelings
past participlecaught feelings
pastcaught feelings

Questions about catch feelings

What does catch feelings mean?
Catch feelings means to suddenly begin to feel romantic attraction (towards).
What part of speech is catch feelings?
Catch feelings is a verb.
What is the past tense of catch feelings?
The past tense of catch feelings is caught feelings.

Words near catch feelings in the dictionary

  1. catch cries
  2. catch crop
  3. catch crops
  4. catch cry
  5. catch dust
  6. catch feelings
  7. catch fence
  8. catch fences
  9. catch fire
  10. catch flies
  11. catch hands

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