: something that holds or includes odds and ends or a wide variety of things
a catchall tray
dyspepsia is a catchall term for stomach discomfort
Example Sentences
They used the drawer as a catchall for kitchen items. “The arts” is a catchall for a variety of activities from painting to music.
Recent Examples on the WebAll five companies targeted by Moore support environmental, social, and governance principles, or ESG, a catchall term that has become a lightning rod for criticism from conservatives. David Gelles, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022 So when the term Web3, a catchall for organizations and companies built around cryptocurrency technology, began cropping up on social media in 2021, White started to write a Wikipedia article on it. Gerrit De Vynck, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2022 So when the term Web3, a catchall for organizations and companies built around cryptocurrency technology, began cropping up on social media in 2021, White started to write a Wikipedia article on it. Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 29 May 2022 It’s from these pejorative meanings that the word’s usage broadened around the 1930s to refer to the mentally ill, becoming kind of a catchall term for crazy, along with other slang like bananas (which also was a slang term for a gay man) and nuts. Joseph Lamour, Bon Appétit, 22 June 2022 Let’s, therefore, go with AI activism as the appropriate overarching moniker and drop the AI advocacy phrasing as a potentially equivalent catchall. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 4 June 2022 Suffolk police also launched a then-new website, gilgonews.com, as a catchall for information pertaining to the case. Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 6 May 2022 Used as a catchall for the ways our world has changed with Covid-19, this phrase was actually banished (for different reasoning) back in 2012. Leah Asmelash, CNN, 2 Jan. 2022 This vision contrasted with the Greek view of Hades as the catchall for the human soul and the early Hebrew Bible’s description of Sheol as a shadowy pit of nothingness. Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2021 See More