/kach"euhz kach"kan"/ , adj.
1. Also, catch-can . taking advantage of any opportunity; using any method that can be applied: a catch-as-catch-can life, as an itinerant handyman.
adv.
2. without specific plan or order: They lived catch-as-catch-can.
n.
3. a style of wrestling in which the contestants are permitted to trip, tackle, and use holds below the waist. Cf. Greco-Roman (def. 3).
[ 1885-90 ]