CAUGHT UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does caught up mean? 

• CAUGHT UP (adjective)
  The adjective CAUGHT UP has 1 sense:

1. having become involved involuntarily

  Familiarity information: CAUGHT UP used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAUGHT UP (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having become involved involuntarily

Context example:

caught up in the scandal

Similar:

involved (connected by participation or association or use)

 Context examples 

It was he who had been caught up into the clouds and carried to her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then Nancy fainted, and I caught up the key of the door from her hand, intending to unlock it and get help.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Not this time," said Lord John, who had caught up his rifle.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They could estimate the black hole’s mass through the movements of a star caught up in its enormous gravitational pull.

(Odd Behaviour of Star Reveals Lonely Black Hole Hiding in Giant Star Cluster, ESO)

Bows, steel caps, and jacks were caught up from the grass.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He caught up the next paper; it was a brief note in the doctor’s hand and dated at the top. O Poole! the lawyer cried, he was alive and here this day.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He caught up everything which would betray him, and he rushed into your bedroom to conceal himself.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The gold-seeking tide was flooding northward into Alaska, and it was inevitable that Hans Nelson and his wife should he caught up by the stream and swept toward the Klondike.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

All of a sudden she stopped, caught up the two notes, and after looking at them closely, said decidedly, I don't believe Brooke ever saw either of these letters.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad on a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)