passer-by
nounUK /ˈpɑː.sə.baɪ/ · CA, US /ˈpæs.ɚˌbaɪ/
Etymology From passer + by. Compare bystander.
1
A person who is passing by (that is, walking past).
- When he tripped and fell in the street, several kind passers-by helped him up.
- With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 10, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- Related terms
- passer-through