catchall
Noun
Meaning
an enclosure or receptacle for odds and ends
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Courtesy of Jonathan AdlerThis appropriately-shaped catchall is made of polished brass and adds a bit of shine on top of a stack of bedside books.
Doctors often treat female patients as psychiatric cases first—a remnant of the era when medical authorities used “hysteria” as a catchall diagnosis—allowing acute, antibiotic-treatable tick bites to advance.
ANDREW ARTHUR: It's actually become a - sort of a catchall for truly inventive lawyers.
Cyber insurance is a nice catchall that's general and broad, but it's not just one thing.
It’s meant to be a catchall struct that most applications should be able to use.
Serendipitously, several retailers are also running major spring sales right now, including Anthropologie’s home department, which is offering the cutie catchall pictured above for less than $10.