WALK IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does walk in mean? 

• WALK IN (verb)
  The verb WALK IN has 1 sense:

1. enter by walking

  Familiarity information: WALK IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WALK IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enter by walking

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

She walks in at all hours, as if she lived here

Hypernyms (to "walk in" is one way to...):

come in; enter; get in; get into; go in; go into; move into (to come or go into)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

walk-in (person who walks in without having an appointment)

 Context examples 

Then this visitor had nothing to do but to walk in.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My mother bent her head, and begged her to walk in.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I earnestly pressed his coming to us, and should not be surprised to see him walk in today or tomorrow, or any day.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

"They would be just the thing to take a long walk in, for they could not wear out."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

If you are self-employed, this suggests a new client will walk in the door, which is almost always good news.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Sometimes he could walk in, and sometimes he was led in, and sometimes he was carried in, and it was only by his clothes that I could know him—

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not a walk in the rain, I should imagine.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

We go on. And we walk in dreams through the silence.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

In other experiments, they made mice walk in circles by injecting a drug that mimics morphine into the ventral tegmental area (VTA), a region that controls motivation and addiction.

(Futuristic brain probe allows for wireless control of neurons, NIH)

The snow was light, and with her broom she soon swept a path all round the garden, for Beth to walk in when the sun came out and the invalid dolls needed air.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)