catch a packet

verb

To be fired upon.

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Meanings

verbcatch a packet (third-person singular simple present catches a packet, present participle catching a packet, simple past and past participle caught a packet)

present singular third person catches a packet · participle present catching a packet · participle past caught a packet · past caught a packet

  1. idiomaticslanggovernmentTo be fired upon.

    While here last night we caught a packet, and some shrapnel came into our house here. However, no casualties in cars or men.

    1956, George Rock, The History of the American Field Service, 1920-1955, page 436
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    From then onwards about every minute we caught a packet from somewhere: 'Crash! Rattle! Bump! Thump!' Eventually there was an even worse one than usual which knocked us all off our perches; […]

    2016, Peter Hart, Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great War
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