PASS, v. & n. 1. (of light) To fall through glass onto a surface without asking permission. 2. (of a morning) To become an afternoon while you were looking at something else. 3. (of two mugs) To signify, by their mismatching, an entire domestic history in one glance. 4. (of a plunger) To have been pushed, and to hold the pushed position, and to mean by this: done, committed, irreversible. 5. (of the counter) To receive all objects equally and without judgment. 6. (of a towel) To have been moved aside once and to remember it. 7. See also: FAIL, which see.