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Come in

//ˌkʌm ˈɪn// verb, slang

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To enter.

    "Please come in and look around."

  2. 2
    take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal wordnet
  3. 3
    To arrive.

    "That flight just came in."

  4. 4
    to insert between other elements wordnet
  5. 5
    To become relevant, applicable, or useful.

    "The third stage of the plan is where Team B comes in."

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  1. 6
    be received wordnet
  2. 7
    To become available.

    "Blueberries will be coming in next month."

  3. 8
    to come or go into wordnet
  4. 9
    To have a strong enough signal to be able to be received well.

    "Most of the neighbors get 14 channels, but only two of them come in well here."

  5. 10
    come into fashion; become fashionable wordnet
  6. 11
    To join or enter; to begin playing with a group.

    "They started together, but the drummer came in late."

  7. 12
    To enter a plan or group; to join in. informal

    "Near-synonym: come across"

  8. 13
    To surrender; to turn oneself in.

    "Near-synonym: come across"

  9. 14
    To yield or surrender. intransitive
  10. 15
    To begin transmitting. imperative, often

    "This is Charlie 456 to base. Come in, base. Do you read me?"

  11. 16
    To function in the indicated manner.

    "Four-wheel drive sure came in handy while the bridge was washed out."

  12. 17
    To finish a race or similar competition in a particular position, such as first place, second place, or the like.

    "The horse I had bet on came in fourth in the second race."

  13. 18
    To finish a race or similar competition in first place.

    "My horse came in in the first race."

  14. 19
    To rise.

    "The tide will come in in an hour."

  15. 20
    To become fashionable.

    "Orange blouses are coming in!"

  16. 21
    To fully develop.

    "“Everyone says that you should wait, because your body doesn’t fully come in until you’re like 30, and I’m 20 years old, and why am I going to wait until I’m 30 to be snatched?” Catera Northup, an exotic dancer from Rhode Island, said."

  17. 22
    To report to a workplace for a shift. intransitive
  18. 23
    To be correctly placed in preparation for printing. obsolete

Etymology

From Middle English com in, imperative form of Middle English incomen (“to come in; enter”), from Old English incuman (“to come in; enter”), from Proto-Germanic *inkwemaną (“to come in; enter”), equivalent to come + in. Compare Dutch kom in (“come in”), singular imperative form of inkomen (“to come in; enter”), German einkommen (“to come in; enter”). See also income, incoming.

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