catch cold

1. 1.

   come down with a cold

   Broadercatch

Questions about catch cold

What does catch cold mean?

catch cold means "come down with a cold".

Is catch cold a common word?

catch cold is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.