passerby

or pass·er-by

[ pas-er-bahy, -bahy, pah-ser- ]

/ ˈpæs ərˈbaɪ, -ˌbaɪ, ˈpɑ sər- /

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noun, plural pass·ers·by [pas-erz-bahy, -bahy, pah-serz-] /ˈpæs ərzˈbaɪ, -ˌbaɪ, ˈpɑ sərz-/,

a person passing by.

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Origin of passerby

1560–70; pass by + -er¹, with postposing of the particle

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passenger mile, passenger pigeon, passepied, passer, passer-by, passerby, passeriform, passerine, passible, passifloraceous, passim

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"You're a bunch of killers," a passerby told cops standing sentry there, according to one police source.
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Because while calling a passerby “sexy” may be uncouth, it shouldn't be illegal.
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She had been choked unconscious and very likely would have died had a passerby not scared away her attacker.
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I was in a production of Oliver Twist and I was a passerby, and I had five words: “Coming down the street there!”
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A passerby found her body last week, half hidden, half burned, in the Bois de Boulogne on the outskirts of Paris.
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It was a door perennially open, lest some passerby might escape without the greeting.
The Seven-Branched Candlestick|Gilbert W. (Gilbert Wolf) Gabriel
Shop windows, freshly decked, tempted the passerby with foretastes of the season's styles in gowns and hats and furs.
Destiny|Charles Neville Buck
A passerby appears down the path, and she hastily withdraws her hand.
Kipps|H. G. Wells
It is well that you should call to every passerby, "Look here!"
Bleak House|Charles Dickens
A passerby is first attracted by the bright color of a map showing the London subway system.
Papers and proceedings of the thirty-fifth general meeting of the American Library Association, 1913|Various

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passerby

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noun, plural pass·ers·by [pas-erz-bahy, -bahy, pah-serz-] /ˈpæs ərzˈbaɪ, -ˌbaɪ, ˈpɑ sərz-/,

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noun, plural pass·ers·by [pas-erz-bahy, -bahy, pah-serz-] /ˈpæs ərzˈbaɪ, -ˌbaɪ, ˈpɑ sərz-/,

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