Coming in last after me she gets caught (8)
I believe the answer is:
enmeshed
'caught' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with contact as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'coming in last after me she' is the wordplay.
'coming in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'last' becomes 'end' (I've seen this in another clue).
'after' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'me' next to 'she' is 'meshe'.
'end' enclosing 'meshe' is 'ENMESHED'.
'gets' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for enmeshed that I've seen before include "All tangled up as in net" , "Caught in as in net" , "Caught (in problem or snare)" , "Trapped" , "Entangled" .)