See ketch on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1929, H. W. ODUM, in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973), page 184",
"text": "If so you gonna ketch hell."
},
{
"ref": "1967 Apr, Atlantic Monthly, 103/1:",
"text": "You heard about that joke a dollar down and a dollar when you ketch me?",
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},
{
"ref": "1968 S. STUCKEY, in A. Chapman, New Black Voices (1972), page 445",
"text": "Run, nigger, run, de patrollers will ketch you."
}
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"ref": "1681, T. FLATMAN Heraclitus Ridens No. 14",
"text": "'Squire Ketch rejoices as much to hear of a new Vox, as an old Sexton does to hear of a new Delight."
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"ref": "n.d., Ibid;;. No. 18",
"text": "Well! If he has a mind to be Ketch'd, speed him say I."
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"ref": "1840, Fraser's Mag., number XXI, page 210:",
"text": "Ignorant of many of the secrets of ketchcraft.",
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"text": "1859, MATSELL Vocab. s.v. (Farmer),\nI'll ketch you; I'll hang you."
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