walk out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: walks out
form: walking out
form: walked out
form: walked out
Senses: examples: text: Postal workers are set to walk out tomorrow if contract negotiations fail.
text: While the RMT and ScotRail bash heads over the pay freeze, RMT guards based at Glasgow Central are already walking out, with strikes planned [...] in a dispute over "abuse of disciplinary procedures".
ref: 2020 December 2, Philip Haigh, “A winter of discontent caused by threat of union action”, in Rail, page 62:
synonyms: strike
go on strike
walk off the job
qualifier: labour
glosses: To stage a walkout or strike.
glosses: To leave suddenly, especially as a form of protest.
examples: text: The maidservant has been walking out with the butcher’s man.
text: Well, her an' your boy Al, they're a-walkin' out ever' night. An' Aggie’s a good healthy girl that oughta have a husban', else she might git in trouble.
ref: 1939 April 14, John Steinbeck, chapter 28, in The Grapes of Wrath, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC, page 438:
text: And Maud, surely seventeen by now. Did she have a boy to walk out with?
ref: 2005, Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way, New York: Viking, Part 3, Chapter 19, page 244:
synonyms: date
go out
see
glosses: To go out with; to be romantically involved.
examples: text: [The Umbrella] kept off the Sun so effectually, that I could walk out in the hottest of the Weather with greater Advantage than I could before in the coolest, and when I had no need of it, cou’d close it and carry it under my Arm.
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 160:
text: 1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 118, 4 May, 1751, Volume 4, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, p. 161,
The Turks are said to hear with wonder a proposal to walk out, only that they may walk back; and enquire, why any man should labour for nothing:
text: The gentlemen arrived early; and, before Mrs. Bennet had time to tell him of their having seen his aunt [...], Bingley, who wanted to be alone with Jane, proposed their all walking out. It was agreed to.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 270:
text: “Do you walk out this morning, my dear?” / “Yes, I shall go to the Rectory, and seek and find Caroline Helstone, and make her take some exercise: she shall have a breezy walk over Nunnely Common.”
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Shirley and Caroline”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 3–4:
text: The day was damp, and they were not going to walk out, so they both went up to their sitting-room;
ref: 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter V, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 76:
text: [A]long the edge of Regent's Park there were as many silent couples "walking out" together under the scattered gas-lamps as ever there had been.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 130:
glosses: To go for a walk outdoors; to go out.
synonyms: see out
glosses: To accompany (someone) as they leave a house or other building.
examples: text: Too many of us want to believe God for a miracle rather than trust him to bring us through. For some situations, healing takes time, and we have just got to walk it out.
ref: 2013, Linda Mobley, Sold Out: My Journey to a More Intimate Relationship with God:
glosses: To continue or persist in carrying (something) out or following through (with something); to persevere.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
antonyms: walk in
glosses: To step away with when carrying the weight in order not to hit the rack it was lifted off from during execution of the exercise.
Related terms: walk out on