Meaning

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, with.
  2. (informal) To join and come along.
  3. Synonym of come up with (“to manage to produce something by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it”).

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In summary

From a substrate of several Germanic immigrant languages that feature the same construction. Compare Dutch meekomen, German mitkommen, Norwegian komme med, Swedish komma med for the Midwest and Afrikaans saamkom for South Africa.

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