To transfer responsibility or blame from oneself onto another; to absolve oneself of concern for a given matter by claiming to lack authority or jurisdiction.

pass the hatverb

To ask for money, especially from a group of people; to solicit donations or contributions.

pass the mantleverb

To transfer authority to the next in line; pass the torch.

pass the phoneverb

Said during a game in which a group of people expose something embarrassing about a person and passes the phone to that person.

pass the pikesverb

To endure a difficult or unpleasant ordeal.

pass the riververb

To die.

pass the timeverb

To occupy oneself for a period of time.

pass the time of dayverb

To exchange any ordinary greeting of civility.

pass throughverb

To go through, to travel through, to transit or lie across a place or from one place to another.

pass through the handsverb

To be in the temporary possession or control (of).

pass under the yokeverb

Of a defeated army, to be humiliated by the victors.

pass upverb

To refuse (not accept); forgo.

pass up like a white chipverb

To reject or ignore; to treat as worthless.

pass urineverb

To pee; to urinate.

pass waterverb

To urinate.

pass windverb

To break wind; fart.

pass-aggadj

Clipping of passive-aggressive.

pass-and-playadj

Capable of being played by more than one player by physically passing the device or controller to each player on his or her turn.

pass-dicenoun

The game of passage.

pass-failadj

Describing a form of examination, etc. in which the student either passes or fails, without receiving a specific mark or grade.

pass-parolenoun

An order passed from the front to the rear by word of mouth.

pass-remarkableadj

Of a person, making belittling or snide remarks.

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