caught up

1. 1.

   having become involved involuntarily

   “caught up in the excitement of the crowd”

   “caught up in the scandal”

   Similarinvolved

Questions about caught up

What does caught up mean?

caught up means "having become involved involuntarily".

Is caught up a common word?

caught up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.