passer
/ˈpæsəɹ/ noun C1- One who succeeds in passing a test, etc.
- One who passes something along; a distributor. · a passer of counterfeit banknotes
- Someone who passes, someone who makes a pass.
- A football player who makes a forward pass, who may be (but not limited to) the quarterback.
- A passed pawn.
- One who is able to "pass", or be accepted as a member of a race, sex or other group to which society would not otherwise regard them as belonging.
Plural passers
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For the sake of the nuts, the passers-by broke its branches with stones and sticks.
Each stalk served as a perch for a grasshopper, which regaled the passers-by through this Egyptian scene with its strident, monotonous note.
Holmes was silent and motionless; but I could tell that he was keenly alert, and that his eyes were fixed intently upon the stream of passers-by.
He rushed out into the road, but, although several passers-by declared that they had noticed a man run out of the shop, he could neither see anyone nor could he find any means of identifying the rascal.
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