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pass
verb- to seek acceptance as white because of fair skin colouring US, 1933
- I heard of many a cat passin’ for white, but this is the first time I ever heard of a white man passin’ for colored, and in jail too. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 312, 1946
- There is no way of calculating how many light-skinned citizens can and do “pass.” — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 34, 1951
- The boy (she always spoke of him as a boy) would be able to “pass.” After perhaps two hundred years of outrace-breeding, after eight generations, there would be a child of her blood who could pass for white. — Jim Thompson, The Kill-Off, p. 48, 1957
- “This Loam,” he say, “is one nigga ain’t passin’ nohow let me tell you.” — Richard Farina, Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone, p. 3, 1969
- He told him it was a pity that Papa was so near white and yet so far with too much yellow in his complexion to pass. — Mama Black Widow, p. 107, 1969
- to behave and dress as a member of the opposite gender US
- But many pass well enough that in public no one would ever suspect. — George Bray, alt.sex.bondage, 24 March 1990
- — Angela Lewis, My Other Self, p. 269, 2010
▶ pass change
to bribe TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1989- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
▶ pass the time of day
to exchange greetings; to chat and gossip UK, 1851- I enjoy living here, and know everyone on my street: we pass the time of day, talk about the weather, parking, local shopping, the small inane topics that bind a community together. — New Statesman, 30 July 2001
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