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Verb: come in
  1. To come or go into
    "the boat came in an area of shallow marshes";
    - enter, get into, get in, go into, go in, move into
     
  2. Be received
    "News came in of the massacre in Rwanda";
    - come
     
  3. (fashion) come into fashion; become fashionable
     
  4. To insert between other elements
    - interject, interpose, put in, throw in, inject
     
  5. Take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
    "Jerry came in third in the Marathon";
    - place, come out

Derived forms: came in, coming in, come in, comes in

See also: come up

Type of: arrive, break up, change, come, cut off, disrupt, get, interrupt, rank

Antonym: go out

Encyclopedia: Come in, Your Time is Up