"catch a packet" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "catches a packet",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "catching a packet",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caught a packet",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caught a packet",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "catch<,,caught> a packet"
      },
      "expansion": "catch a packet (third-person singular simple present catches a packet, present participle catching a packet, simple past and past participle caught a packet)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Military",
          "orig": "en:Military",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1956, George Rock, The History of the American Field Service, 1920-1955, page 436",
          "text": "While here last night we caught a packet, and some shrapnel came into our house here. However, no casualties in cars or men.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Peter Hart, Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great War",
          "text": "From then onwards about every minute we caught a packet from somewhere: 'Crash! Rattle! Bump! Thump!' Eventually there was an even worse one than usual which knocked us all off our perches; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be fired upon."
      ],
      "id": "en-catch_a_packet-en-verb-IzfgdUBX",
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "fire",
          "fire"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military, slang, idiomatic) To be fired upon."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "catch a packet"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "catches a packet",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "catching a packet",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caught a packet",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caught a packet",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "catch<,,caught> a packet"
      },
      "expansion": "catch a packet (third-person singular simple present catches a packet, present participle catching a packet, simple past and past participle caught a packet)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Military"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1956, George Rock, The History of the American Field Service, 1920-1955, page 436",
          "text": "While here last night we caught a packet, and some shrapnel came into our house here. However, no casualties in cars or men.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Peter Hart, Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great War",
          "text": "From then onwards about every minute we caught a packet from somewhere: 'Crash! Rattle! Bump! Thump!' Eventually there was an even worse one than usual which knocked us all off our perches; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be fired upon."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "fire",
          "fire"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military, slang, idiomatic) To be fired upon."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "catch a packet"
}