catch wreck
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From catch + recognition where the word recognition is abbreviated and re-spelled according to eye dialect as wreck.
Verb[edit]
catch wreck (third-person singular simple present catches wreck, present participle catching wreck, simple past and past participle caught wreck)
- (African-American Vernacular) To gain respect.
- 2016, Tamara Ebo, Tears of Purpose:
- They said it was some girls and boys from the Perry's who came through and caught wreck with the Downtown boys and they girls.