Definition of "pass around" []

• Cause be distributed (verb)
• Cause to become widely known (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "General Lee's aim was to pass around the right flank of his adversary, and bring him to battle; and, although the promptness of General Meade's movements defeated the last-named object nearly completely, the manoeuvres of the two armies form a highly-interesting study."
• "Serve in bowls and pass around a chilled bottle of pepper-flavored vodka."
• "Along this line he had constructed some slight works during the night, and at daylight on the 24th, I moved the Sixth and Nineteenth corps through Mt. Jackson to attack him, sending Powell's division to pass around his left flank, toward Timberville, and Devin's brigade across the North Fork, to move along the base of Peaked Ridge and attack his right."