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  • noun A person who is passing by (that is, walking past).

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Examples

  • Bean, 52, was attacked after a passer-by made lewd comments about 22-year-old model April Summers outside a London bar.

    Game of Thrones' Sean Bean Stabbed 2011

  • Now the eight of us are sitting in the stair way at the front of the police station, passer-by can stop and watch and take picture of us.

    Global Voices in English » China: Tweeting a detention experience 2009

  • Once, at a sharp turn where a man's shoulder would unavoidably brush against a screen of leaves, the bushman displayed great caution as he spread the leaves aside and exposed the head of a sharp-pointed spear, so set that the casual passer-by would receive at the least a nasty scratch.

    Chapter 24 2010

  • A passer-by saw the child fall into the River Medway in Maidstone, Kent, at about 2.30pm yesterday and jumped in to save him.

    Boy dies after river fall 2011

  • It was to prevent passer-by to see the line on my T-shirt.

    Global Voices in English » China: A turmoil triggered by T-shirt 2009

  • This tiny storefront could be easily overlooked by a passer-by given the dozens of Middle Eastern restaurants and stores on that block.

    July « 2009 « Off The Broiler 2009

  • This tiny storefront could be easily overlooked by a passer-by given the dozens of Middle Eastern restaurants and stores on that block.

    NYC Dining: Kabab Cafe 2009

  • Tomlinson was not a demonstrator -- he was a passer-by on the way home.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • This tiny storefront could be easily overlooked by a passer-by given the dozens of Middle Eastern restaurants and stores on that block.

    26 « July « 2009 « Off The Broiler 2009

  • Beneath it is written: "As I saw the passer-by stop and hand the little kid his broken helmet and pat him on the back I guess he didn't need it anymore, the child saw me approaching, held out his hand and said, 'Please, miss, now all we need is the scooter to go with it!'"

    Can We Humanize the Web? Holly Finn 2011

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