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come down the pike en · VERB

Etymology

From pike, short for turnpike (“toll expressway”).

Meanings

1. (US, of an event, person, qualifier:thing) To emerge, come up; be about to happen; to approach or arrive on the scene; to present (itself or oneself).
   • “I knew it was coming on down the pike, just not at the rate it hit us,” said Sheree Renée Thomas, the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, which was founded in 1949. 2023 February 23, Michael Levenson, quoting Sheree Thomas, “Science Fiction Magazines Battle a Flood of Chatbot-Generated Stories”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • "[T]hey're the finest football leaders that ever came down the pike." 1902, Ralph Henry Barbour, chapter 11, in Behind the Line:
   • “For me, it's a harbinger of larger cultural changes coming down the pike.” 2014 May 26, Amy Verner, “From Humble Sneaker to Luxury Icon”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • Alfred Stieglitz was the best photographer ever to come down the pike. 1949 November 14, “Art: Many Ways”, in Time, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016:

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Synonyms

come down the line · come down the road