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passman|ˈpɑːsmən, ˈpæs-|
[f. pass n.2 + man.]
a. In some universities: A student who reads for and takes a ‘pass’ degree; opposed to honour- or honours-man, class-man.
1860Burrows Pass & Class i. 6 A place in either Class List will distinguish him from the Pass-men. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. III. vi. cii. 446 That separation which has grown up in Oxford and Cambridge between pass or poll men and honour men. 1894J. C. Jeaffreson Bk. of Recoll. I. iv. 56 More scholarship than a mere Oxford passman usually possesses.
b. A prisoner who is allowed to leave his cell. slang.
1965B. Knox Taste of Proof iii. 49 The passmen, the privileged, trusted prisoners. 1973J. Patrick Glasgow Gang Observed ix. 82 He had envied the ‘passmen’, boys who in the afternoon were permitted to leave their cells to scrub floors and polish shoes. |
