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Catch all 

A disease with a diagnostic criteria so vast that it consumes and absorbs all the other diseases. Short for “catch all diagnosis.”
Person 1: “Idk man, I was just sitting in class then my heart started beating real fast and I fainted.”
Person 2: “did you see a doctor?”
Person 1: “yeah they said it’s anxiety and that fainting was recently added to the symptoms in the DSM.”
Person 2: “whatever anxiety is a catch all anyway.”

(It was stage 5 cancer)
Catch all by Sacredfart March 12, 2023
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Catch-all 

A job in which most of your tasks and duties have absolutely nothing to do with your job description. Most of your tasks are assigned to you due to the incompetence of others.
Fucking FirmMetrics, billing audits, implementation tasks, dammit I'm such a catch-all.
Catch-all by ridersOfTheStorm February 2, 2017

catch-all 

a term in accounting to denote an account head where anomalies, eg wrong treatments of accounts, are transferred. For example, if an asset head is wrongly credited with Rs. 50,000, the assets and liabilities are shown with a mismatch of this amount.
The general ledger of the company has a catch-all figure of Rs. 25,000, which needs to be rectified.
catch-all by uttam maharjan July 7, 2011

Asexual (+: A catch-all for all other identities and orientations not covered by the specific letters.) 

What i call homo-sapiens addicted to abscesses.
Person 1: Are you addicted to abscesses?
Person 2: Yes.
Person 1: Asexual (+: A catch-all for all other identities and orientations not covered by the specific letters.)

gotta catch 'em all 

phrase using in de cartoon "Pokèmon"
it means goin' to catch them all
ash:gotta catch 'em all
gotta catch 'em all by maddie17 March 20, 2008

Gotta catch em all 

Pokémon gotta catch em all 👍
You can use it as a phrase for example: we gotta catch em all.

Gotta catch 'em all 

What you gotta do.

What you gotta do.

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