Usually means: Special chess capture involving pawns.
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  1. en passant: Merriam-Webster
  2. en passant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. en passant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. en passant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. en passant: Vocabulary.com
  6. en passant: Wordnik
  7. en passant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. en passant: Wiktionary
  9. en passant: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. En passant, en passant: Dictionary.com
  11. en passant: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. En Passant (Alphawezen album), En passant (Jean-Jacques Goldman album), En passant (disambiguation), En passant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. en passant: Rhymezone
  14. en passant: FreeDictionary.org
  15. en passant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. en passant: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. en passant: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (en passant)

adjective:  (of a capture in chess) Performed by a pawn on an enemy pawn that has just passed over its attack zone.
adverb:  In passing, by the way, incidentally.
adverb:  (of capturing an enemy pawn in chess) By moving one's pawn to the square that the enemy pawn has just passed over.
noun:  (chess) A move in which a pawn captures an opposing pawn on the same rank immediately after the latter has moved forward two squares on its first move in the game, as if it had moved forward only one square.

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