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catchall
[ kach-awl ]
noun
- a bag, basket, or other receptacle for odds and ends.
- something that covers a wide variety of items or situations:
The list is just a catchall of things I want to see or do on vacation.
adjective
- covering a wide variety of items or situations:
The anthology is a catchall collection.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of catchall1
Example Sentences
In some cases, they cited a catchall exemption that keeping the records private clearly outweighs the public interest, with no further explanation.
That view treats Middle America as a catchall for sensibility, moral uprightness and a mythical strain of virtue incorrectly believed to be absent from the supposedly libertine coasts or in large cities.
For her Narcissus catchall, she applied the loose gestures of Chinese brush painting to metal sculpture to encapsulate the object’s qi, or vital energy.
But in the hands of the broader, and whiter, academic and journalistic left, it soon became a kind of cool catchall for progressive politics, alongside other buzzwords like “intersectionality.â€
“Everything looks better on a tray, in a catchall or in a bucket,†he said.
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