to pass
- verb
- /pæs/
- Three young boys skate around on roller blades, passing a street hockey ball between them proficiently.
- pass the ball
- pass to the player
- pass back and forth
We're just in the ball and they pass it to me.
- We're just in the ball and they pass it to me.
- He he, we see things, but we don't pass the ball.
- Nothing, anything big fan, Dribble, dribble, dribble, pass man on throwing.
Examples
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The coach told the players to pass the ball quickly to create more scoring opportunities.
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Pass the ball!
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Guys, break, break, pass, break, break, pass, pass to the left.
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Who are you supposed to pass the ball to?
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Tell them that the first group to pass the ball around the group will win.
Academic text (1993) -
COACH: Okay, let's see you pass!
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All team members were required to pass half court before shooting, with three mandatory passes.
Academic text (2005) -
When the music stops, the student with the ball begins passing the ball around the circle.
Academic text (2013) -
Boy: Pass the puck around!
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During the basketball game, he made a quick move to pass the ball to his teammate.
Synonyms
To throw the ball quickly and casually
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To give responsibility or control to another person during a planned change
Phrasal Verbs
- Specialized
Send a value or setting from a main part of a program to its smaller parts
Compounds
- Informal
An excuse that lets someone avoid rules or blame because of their position
- US
A written note from a teacher that allows a student to leave class and go into the hallway
- Specialized
A device that lets slow changes in signals pass and reduces fast changes
- NSFW
Permission from a partner to be romantic or sexual with someone outside the relationship
A mountain road through the Alps that links Innsbruck in Austria with Bolzano in Italy
A narrow mountain route between Pakistan and Afghanistan used for trade and army movements
- NSFW
A high mountain pass near Lake Tahoe where trapped pioneers ate human flesh to survive
- Jargon
A short forward pass to a player running toward the sideline in American football
- Jargon
A pass that goes sideways or backward instead of forward in American football
- Specialized
An electronic part that lets high sounds pass and reduces low sounds
- Specialized
A setting that lets signals or data pass through unchanged to another device
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Pass comes from the Old French passer and the Latin passus, meaning 'to go across' or 'one step'. To pass the ball in a game is to send it across to a teammate, the same basic idea of moving something from one place to another.