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Passer

noun

A person who passes by casually or by chance. Synonyms: passer-by, passerby.

A person who passes as a member of a different ethnic or racial group.

A student who passes an examination.

(football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by throwing a forward pass. Synonym: forward passer.

Type genus of the Passeridae. Synonym: genus Passer.

Pass

adjective

Of advancing the ball by throwing it. Synonym: passing. "A pass play"

Passe

adjective

Out of fashion. Synonyms: antique, demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat, outmoded, passee. "Demode (or outmoded) attire" , "Outmoded ideas"

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"Passer" Quotes from Famous Books

... question relates to the attitude of the people toward public property in a so-called free country. People are prone to take anything that they please from anything which is so impersonal as a country. Nut trees planted in public places would have their crops carried off by every passer by to such an extent that revenue for the upkeep of the trees would be difficult to obtain. In some of the European countries this obstacle has not been insurmountable. There are many villages in Europe in which privately owned fields are not even fenced and fruit and nut trees ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Sixth Annual Meeting. Rochester, New York, September 1 and 2, 1915 • Various

... let himself be led downstairs into the sitting-room, and Monsieur Homais soon went home. On the Place he was accosted by the blind man, who, having dragged himself as far as Yonville, in the hope of getting the antiphlogistic pomade, was asking every passer-by where the ...

— Madame Bovary • Gustave Flaubert

... and unkempt, make a pretence of keeping the crossings clean; who first sweep, and then hold out a small palm for the penny, dodging the horses' hoofs, and just escaping by a hair's breadth the wheels of truck or omnibus in their attempts to secure the coin, if some pitiful passer-by stops at ...

— Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls • Anonymous

... stations as "captives" to be sent into the army. Never before had the Jewish masses, yielding to pressure from above, sunk to such depths of degradation. The Jew became a beast of prey to his fellow-Jew. Jews were afraid of budging an inch from their native cities. Every passer-by was suspected of being a captor or a bandit. The recruiting inquisition of Nicholas inflicted upon the Jews the utmost limit of martyrdom. It set Jew against Jew, called forth "a war of all against all," threw the tortured and the torturers into ...

— History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II • S.M. Dubnow

... been my desire to become a Saint, but I have always felt, in comparing myself with the Saints, that I am as far removed from them as the grain of sand, which the passer-by tramples underfoot, is remote from the mountain whose summit ...

— The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Ame): The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux • Therese Martin (of Lisieux)

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