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cotton on
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb cotton on has 1 sense
- cotton on(v = verb.cognition) catch on, get it, get onto, get wise, latch on, tumble, twig - understand, usually after some initial difficulty; "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on" is one way to apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy
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