pillar
/piˈʝaɾ/, [piˈʝaɾ], /piˈʝaɾ/, [piˈʝaɾ]catch, tag
Verb pillar (first-person singular present pillo, first-person singular preterite pillé, past participle pillado)
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to catch, get, to grab (e.g. grab a cab, get lunch, grab a drink, catch a movie)
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to pilfer, steal
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(games) to tag
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(colloquial) to get (a joke)
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(colloquial) to catch, to catch up to
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(colloquial) to catch, to pick up, to bust, to nab (someone doing something illegal)
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(colloquial) to come down with, catch, to pick up (an illness)
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(colloquial) to pick up on, to take (e.g. information, a hint)
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(Spain, colloquial) to score (e.g. drugs)
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(colloquial, reflexive) to jam (your finger)
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(colloquial, reflexive) to fall in love, to crush on someone
Source: Wiktionary available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
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Al ser extranjero, no pude pillar el chiste.
Being a foreigner, I couldn't catch on to the joke.
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Pillar como pillar puede.
Catch as catch can.
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Nada puede pillar por sorpresa a un estadounidense. A menudo se ha dicho que la palabra "imposible" no era francesa. Obviamente, la gente miró en el diccionario equivocado. En Estados Unidos, todo es fácil, todo es simple y las dificultades mecánicas se solucionan antes de surgir.
Nothing can take an American by surprise. It has often been said that the word "impossible" was not a French one. People have obviously looked in the wrong dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple and mechanical difficulties are overcome before they arise.
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Ella no sale de la habitación, porque no quiere pillar otro resfriado.
She won't leave the room, because she doesn't want to catch another cold.
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