What is "catchall"

Usage examples of "catchall".

He believed that only stupid people could define the failings and opportunities of this complex world by means of trite catchall mottos.

Huddled down in the dust and debris of the catchall storeroom it had become, I screamed soundlessly into my muffling hands.

And some kind of a pouch dangling from the harness, a catchall the size of a small barn.

Dan knew that Comnavbase Philadelphia, now a one-star rear admiral, had a small staff of people who tried to cover the catchall functions of the old districts in addition to their normal duties.

She noticed, as Eve had, the little vase of flowers on the nightstand, the square catchall box on the dresser that said I LOVE GRANDMA in pink swirly letters on the top, and the framed photos and holos that stood on the dresser, the nightstand, the small desk by the window.

I took the bridge across into Yuba City and stopped at an Exxon station off Bridge Street to fill the tank and to look up Elmer Rix and the Catchall Shop in the local directory.

My watch said 2:10 when I recrossed the bridge into Yuba City, and 2:15 when I pulled up in front of the Catchall Shop.

Now canvas is a catchall term for a range of different materials used to paint on.

Insanity, gentlemen, is not a catchall for every human action that involves motives we don't understand.

Garages tend to be catchalls, getting choked with everything except the cars they were meant to house.

One-who-Decides thought of them as catchalls, as nonspecialists who could be relied upon to do a little of everything efficiently but nothing especially well.

Since Fernanda never smoked, she used ash trays for catchalls and the two in sight were heaped with earrings, safety pins, rolls of film .

The diagnosis of adjustment disorder was a catchall straight out of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

MacGregor is the author of the 1988 The Discovery of the Art of the Insane, a seminal study of one manifestation of the form that has been variously called Art Brut, Folk Art, Self-Taught Art, Visionary Art, but which is now commonly classed under the catchall term Outsider Art.

Christine also had a stuffed passenger pigeon (the ROM’s Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology—the slapped-together catchall formed by merging the old ichthyology, herpetology, mammalogy, and ornithology departments—had about twenty of them).