Usually means: Expose someone's mistake or lie.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. catch out: Merriam-Webster
  2. catch out: Collins English Dictionary
  3. catch out: Vocabulary.com
  4. catch out: Wiktionary
  5. catch out: Dictionary.com
  6. catch out: Rhymezone
  7. Catch Out: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  8. catch out: FreeDictionary.org
  9. catch out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. catch out: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. catch out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catch out: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catch out: Encyclopedia

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  1. catch out: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Catch Out: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (catch out)

verb:  (transitive) To discover or expose as fake, insincere, or inaccurate.
verb:  (transitive) To take (someone) by surprise.
verb:  (transitive, cricket) To put a batsman out by catching the batted ball before it touches the ground.
verb:  (intransitive, dated, US, slang) To leave an area by jumping on a train; to ride the rails away.

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