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falls by

falls by is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fall by.

Meaning of fall by

Verb

fall by (third-person singular simple present falls by, present participle falling by, simple past fell by, past participle fallen by)

  1. (colloquial, slang, African-American Vernacular) To visit unexpectedly; to arrive for a visit without an invitation.
    • You have to fall by her house this afternoon.

Questions about falls by

What is falls by the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Falls by is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fall by.

Words near falls by in the dictionary

  1. falls back upon
  2. falls behind
  3. falls below
  4. falls between the cracks
  5. falls between two stools
  6. falls by
  7. falls by the wayside
  8. Falls Church
  9. Falls City
  10. Falls County
  11. Falls Creek

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Adapted from Wiktionary: falls by (page history and authors); fall by (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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