came

1. pastsimple past of come
2. colloquialnonstandardparticiplepastpast participle of come

   I don't know why her ass couldn't have just waited until I had got ready so we could have came together. It's bad enough I even have to be in this mothafucka.

   2011 April 1, Angie Daniels, Careful of the Company You Keep, Kensington Publishing Corp, page 53

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   With that army the British army, in the course of its operations, must have came in contact; and, if that were likely, (may rather if it was impossible to avoid it.) I will ask, whether, under all the circumstances of Europe[…]

   1812, The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time, volume 16, T.C. Hansard, page 335

   Thailand's expansion of access to secondary and tertiary education is unlikely to have came at the expense of quality. International achievement test^([sic]) show Thai students consistently outperforming not just Indonesia, whose per capita national income is less than half of Thailand's[…]

   2006, Kaspar Richter, Thailand's Growth Path: From Recovery to Prosperity, The World Bank, page 50

3. pastsimple past of cum

1. Used to indicate that the following event, period, or change in state occurred in the past, after a time of waiting, enduring, or anticipation

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   Came Christmas by which, at the outset, everybody knew it would be over, and it was not over. Came June, 1915, concerning which, at the outset, he had joined with Mr. Fortune, Twyning and Harold in laughter at his own grotesque idea of the war lasting to the dramatic effect of a culminating battle on the centenary of Waterloo, and the war had lasted, and was still lasting.

   1921, Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson, If Winter Comes, page 256

   Synonyms: by, when [event, period, change in state] came/arrived

plural cames

1. A grooved strip of metal, traditionally usually lead or brass and today sometimes stainless steel, used to hold panes of glass together in glazing.

1. A surname.
2. A commune in Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.