latch on

verb

latched on; latching on; latches on

British, informal

: to begin to understand something

What he was saying was complicated, so it took me a while to latch on.

Examples of latch on in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Any gaps in clothing offer ticks a chance to hop over and latch on, and tucking your pants into your socks eliminates that critical pants-to-socks gap. — Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 23 July 2026

Bukayo Saka had a goal ruled out for offside before scoring in the 37th minute from the kind of break England would have loved in the semi-final against Argentina before latching on to an Eberechi Eze pass to make it 4-0 just before the break. — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 20 July 2026

Maridueña played Jaime Reyes, a recent college graduate who gains superpowers when an alien scarab latches on to him. — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 July 2026

The robot inspects nearby infrastructure on its own schedule, then finds its way back to the station, latches on, recharges inductively, and offloads its data, all without a ship or a crew anywhere nearby. — New Atlas, 5 July 2026

Rhymes for latch on

• anton
• argon
• axon
• baronne
• baryon
• baton
• boron
• buisson
• bygone
• capon
• cardon
• chiffon