Other forms: comps
A comp is a comprehensive examination, or a free ticket. Sit your comps, a pair of comps, get comped.
In American graduate study, comps are the examinations that must be passed before a doctorate can proceed, and they are dreaded. In entertainment a comp is a free ticket given to a critic or a friend, and to comp somebody is to let them in free.
1nouncompA comprehensive examination, or a free ticket.
“The band's manager gave us a couple of comps for the Saturday show.”
comp is an examination, or a ticket.