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Do come by to collect that girl (3-8)

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I believe the answer is:

get-together

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'collect that girl' is the definition.
'get together' can be an answer for 'collect' (thesaurus). I am not sure about the remainder of the definition.

'do come by to' is the wordplay.
'do come' becomes 'get' ('get' can be a synonym of 'come').
'by' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'to' becomes 'together' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'get'+'together'='GET-TOGETHER'

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(Other definitions for get-together that I've seen before include "An informal party" , "Assemble" , "Informal meeting" , "informal social gathering" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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