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passer|ˈpɑːsə(r), -æ-|
[f. pass v. + -er1.]
1. One who passes, travels, or goes by; a passer-by.
1382Wyclif Jer. xxii. 20 Crie to the passeres, for to-trode ben alle thi loueres. 1552Huloet, Passer by the contrey, viator. 1602Carew Cornwall 133 Without troubling the passer, or borrowing Stentors voyce, you may..conferre with any in the..towne. 1800Southey Lett. (1856) I. 112 This must exclude the great body of passers and repassers. 1886F. Harrison Choice Bks. i. 11 Men who surrender their time to the first passer in the street.
2. One who passes an examination.
1898Weekly Reg. 26 Nov. 680 Successful passers of the London University B.A. [Examination].
3. a. One who causes to pass, in the various senses of the verb. (See pass v. III.)
1832Lewis Use & Ab. Pol. Terms Introd. 10 The passers of bad money. 1871Maurice in Life (1884) II. xii. 178 The passer of the Roman Catholic Bill.
b. In ball games, a player who passes the ball to another player (cf. pass v. 46 b).
1905Westm. Gaz. 12 Dec. 9/2 From a clever pass—the ‘passer’ could not be distinguished in the fog—Parker feinted and swerved cleverly, scored behind the posts, and an easy goal resulted from Nesbitt's kick. 1970Washington Post 30 Sept. D 4/3 If he played the whole season, he would rank among the top passers in the country. 1972J. Mosedale Football ii. 18 Clark was his team's leading passer. 1973Times 25 Jan. 12/8 Ian's a much better passer of the ball on the ground.
c. In various trades, a person who examines materials or manufactures to ensure that they are of the required quality, workmanship, etc. (see pass v. 45 b).
1921Glasgow Herald 21 June 9/7 The proposed reduction is 3d. per hour in respect of measure cutters,..fitters⁓up, tailors' pressers, machinists, passers, etc.
d. One who receives and passes on counterfeit money. slang. (Cf. pass v. 46 c.)
1929Detective Fiction Weekly 25 May 683/1 The dealer calls the carrier..they meet..and..a few bills are handed out as a sample. The carrier calls the ‘shovers’, sometimes known as ‘passers’ or ‘pushers’ who begin to operate. To this class belong the men who actually place the bogus money in circulation. 1955W. Gaddis Recognitions ii. v. 490 I'm going out to meet a passer, to hand this stuff over to him. It's all arranged and paid for. Ibid., It's always trouble with the middleman and the passers that get you pulled in.
4. One who ‘passes’ as a member of an ethnic group other than his own. (Cf. pass v. 5 d.)
1953P. Abrahams Return to Goli ii. iv. 64 If the passing is successful even the parents of the passer cease to know him or her. 1956L. Kuper Passive Resistance in S. Afr. i. ii. 66 The psychology implicit in apartheid legislation is the psychology of the coloured man who has successfully ‘passed’ into the white group. Over the generations, there would have been inculcated into the successful ‘passer’ the dominant value that ‘whiteness is all’.
5. One who sells drugs illicitly.
1955[see meet n. 1 b]. 1956Sun (Baltimore) 26 July 14/1 This is an Act of the utmost severity, even providing the death penalty for ‘passers’ under certain circumstances. |