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walk-in
Word definitions for walk-in in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1928, "without appointment," from the verbal phrase, from walk (v.) + in (adv.). As a noun, meaning "walk-in closet," by 1946.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. person who walks in without having an appointment; "the emergency room was overrun with walk-ins" an operative who initiates his own defection (usually to a hostile country) for political asylum an assured victory (especially in an election) [syn: waltz ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It was a Soviet-built apartment with a walk-in wardrobe and red velvet curtains partitioning rooms. ▪ Mini-suites offer a sitting area, tub and shower and a walk-in closet. ▪ She also said she was locked in a walk-in freezer ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A walk-in is a new-age concept of a person whose original soul has departed his or her body and has been replaced with a new soul, either temporarily or permanently. Believers maintain that it is possible for the original soul of a human to leave a person's ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of a place English) that people may enter without a prior appointment 2 (context of a thief English) that gains access through unlocked doors 3 (context of a defector etc English) that walks into an embassy etc unannounced 4 (context US of ...
Usage examples of walk-in.
King, and King lived in an area that was a magnet for what Cullum called walk-ins.
He thought both he and Roland had a pretty good idea of how to get out of this world, suspected Stephen King himself could direct them to Turtle-back Lane in Lovell, where reality was thin and according to John Cullum, at least the walk-ins had been plentiful of late.
It was an article of faith with him that all Soviet walk-ins worldwide were dispatched agents, since the Soviet mole inside the Company would have warned Moscow Centre the moment he got wind of a defection, and a genuine defector would be eliminated before he could organize the defection.
Her walk-in closet was double-hung and packed with lawyerish skirt suits, summer dresses, dinner dresses, winter coats.
The bath had matching taupe towels and a cool tiled shower, plus a giant walk-in closet.
The walls, the paneling, the pervasive heaviness of nearly new fixtures, the colossal firedogs, the walk-in fireplaces of bright new stone referred back through the centuries to a time of lonely castles in mute forests.
When the homa was mixed and automatically poured into large containers, Jenna dragged those containers onto wide, low air carts and took them to one of four walk-in coolers called cold stores, each larger than her old quarters in Shamara.
Reservations are recommended at least a day in advance on weekdays, and at least a week in advance on weekends, but walk-ins are welcome too.
It was said that the emergency rooms and walk-in clinics of the Queen City were frequently jammed by periodic influxes of out-of-towners who had unwisely attempted to eat beignets and talk at the same time, almost choking to death in the process.
He pulled Caralie into the dark confines of the walk-in metal container.
I moved to the L-shaped counter, where a uniformed officer monitored the walk-in trade.
On the far wall, two doors stood open, one leading to a small bathroom, the other into what was clearly a spacious walk-in closet.
At one end of the room, double doors stood open to reveal a large walk-in closet the size of my loft.
Fiona had been moving back and forth from the bed to the walk-in closet, carrying blouses and skirts, which she hung on matching white satin-padded hangers.
There were rooms beyond that one, small corridors that twisted back on themselves, even a walk-in closet that had been made to house a Hunt Shoppe display.