Definitions for passerby

passerby pass·er·by

Spelling: [pas-er-bahy, -bahy, pah-ser-]
IPA: /ˈpæs ərˈbaɪ, -ˌbaɪ, ˈpɑ sər-/

Passerby is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 309 anagrams from letters in passerby (abeprssy).

Definitions for passerby

noun

  1. a person passing by.

Origin of passerby

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

Examples for passerby

He walked into their shelter until he was out of any passerby's range of vision.

She had been choked unconscious and very likely would have died had a passerby not scared away her attacker.

He was told by a passerby that it was the home of a club waiter.

You stop the first passerby, and you say I want to find such and such a street.

A passerby found her body last week, half hidden, half burned, in the Bois de Boulogne on the outskirts of Paris.

Because while calling a passerby “sexy” may be uncouth, it shouldn't be illegal.

She is pleased when a passerby stops to admire, and especially so if it be a young miss.

A passerby appears down the path, and she hastily withdraws her hand.

"You're a bunch of killers," a passerby told cops standing sentry there, according to one police source.

I was in a production of Oliver Twist and I was a passerby, and I had five words: “Coming down the street there!”

Word Value for passerby
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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