From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpass something ↔ around (also pass something ↔ round British English) phrasal verbOFFERto offer or show something to each person in a group Pass the cookies around, would you? → pass the hat round/around at hat(6) → pass→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
pass around• The waitress brought our food in two trips, and we started passing things around.• They passed the box around, and we sat there slowly eating the perches out from under the doves.• I suppose it's the same for people who used to pass joints around at parties.• They pass it around behind their backs and must make sure that it is ringing loudly.• More likely Goya passed them around his friends or flipped through the pages.• The midfielders and defenders passed the ball around in their end of the field, 10 or 15 passes at a time.• They paused for grace and then passed the food around, laughing and ragging at one another.• She walks back to her desk, takes out a large yellow box of chocolates and passes them around the room. 