comer
/ˈkʌmɚ/ noun C2- One in a race who is catching up to others and shows promise of winning.
- An ambitious person; one who is catching up in some contest and has a likelihood of victory;
- One who arrives. · The champ will face all comers.
Plural comers
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“How could that bring me into trouble, sir?” asked Dantès; “for I did not even know of what I was the bearer; and the emperor merely made such inquiries as he would of the first comer.
“Well, then, if you felt so sure,” replied the new-comer, putting his cane in a corner and his hat on a chair, “allow me to say, my dear Gérard, that it was not very filial of you to keep me waiting at the door.”
This made him less uneasy, it must be owned, than if the new-comer had proved to be a customs officer; but this supposition also disappeared like the first, when he beheld the perfect tranquillity of his recruit.
His signal was returned, and in two hours afterwards the new-comer lay at anchor beside the yacht.
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