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pick and pass

pick and pass verb: to hit the opponent's blot (exposed piece) and take the hitting checker to safety, within a single play.

Verb

pick and pass (third-person singular simple present picks and passes, present participle picking and passing, simple past and past participle picked and passed)

  1. To hit the opponent's blot (exposed piece) and take the hitting checker to safety, within a single play.
    Synonyms:
    hit and run

Noun

pick and pass (uncountable)

  1. (logistics) Synonym of zone picking.
    • Tiered facilities lend themselves to a number of picking schemes — and the automation of warehousing operations can serve to optimize those operations. One is called “multi-level pick and pass,” in which specific robots are assigned to each floor in the facility. The robotic solution clusters tasks...2024 January 8, “Increase Picking Density with Mezzanines, Pick Towers, and Automation”, in SuplyChainBrain, United States, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2025
    Synonyms:
    zone picking

Synonyms of pick and pass

Forms of pick and pass

third-person singular presentpicks and passes
present participlepicking and passing
past participlepicked and passed
pastpicked and passed

Questions about pick and pass

What does pick and pass mean?
Pick and pass means to hit the opponent's blot (exposed piece) and take the hitting checker to safety, within a single play.
What part of speech is pick and pass?
Pick and pass can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of pick and pass?
The past tense of pick and pass is picked and passed.

Words near pick and pass in the dictionary

  1. pick a lane
  2. pick a quarrel
  3. pick and choose
  4. pick and mix
  5. pick and pack
  6. pick and pass
  7. pick and place
  8. pick and pop
  9. pick and roll
  10. pick apart
  11. pick at

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