walk-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walk-ins
Etymology: Deverbal from walk in.
Senses: glosses: A facility or room which may be walked into:
A relatively small room (such as a closet or pantry) or refrigerator or freezer that is spacious enough to walk into.
examples: text: a walk-in bathroom, a walk-in apartment, lived in a walk-in on Lime Street
text: As Officer Byrne watched the front of the building he observed about ten people enter and leave a walk-in apartment unrelated to the buy and bust operation.
ref: 1993, Reports of Cases Decided in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York:
glosses: A facility or room which may be walked into:
A relatively larger room or (especially) an apartment that is entered directly, not via an intervening passage or lobby.
examples: Most teen clinics are walk-ins.
An increasing demand for skills in niche technologies coupled with higher attrition have prompted these software services firms to organise walk-ins for technology talent too.
glosses: A facility or room which may be walked into:
A facility or an event that principally handles customers who do not have an appointment.
examples: text: This consideration applies to the location of all types of petroleum-solvent cleaning plants, whether operated as delivery plants, drive-ins, walk-ins, or wholesale establishments.
ref: 1925, Domestic Commerce Series, page 32:
text: As most of the food is prepackaged and frozen, and anyone can cook a hamburger or make a malted, drive-in payrolls run a full third under those for "walk-ins"
ref: 1961, “Drive-ins Booming: Highway restaurants now a $6 billion annual business.”, in Financial World, volume 115, page 1060:
text: Walk-ins are not like drive-ins, which freeze or isolate the individual in his eco-damaging armour-tool. Walk-ins are freewheeling playgrounds for the naked ape.
ref: 1971, Vogue, volume 157, page 466:
text: It is undisputed this method of distribution and exhibition would insulate drive-ins from competing with walk-ins for licenses to exhibit first-run pictures, thereby resulting in less film rental to the distributors from the drive-ins.
ref: 1978, Trade Regulation Series, volume 12, number 5, page 327:
glosses: A facility or room which may be walked into:
A facility accessed on foot rather than by car, usually contrasted to drive-in.
examples: text: An astute manager will have a table or two set aside for important regular customers or demanding walk-ins.
ref: 1996, Kazuo Nishiyama, Welcoming the Japanese visitor: insights, tips, tactics, page 85:
text: Any patient with such a history and any woman who has not received prenatal care or who is a walk-in—an unexpected patient with no prenatal chart—will have toxicology labs done,
ref: 1996, Susan L. Diamond, Hard Labor, page 275:
text: others may be getting their first medication through the new Doorway program at Lakes Region General Hospital, which works with walk-ins as well as people referred by the state's 2-1-1 health services crisis line.
ref: 2019 May 3, “As the roads to addiction differ, so do the paths to recovery”, in The Laconia Daily Sun:
glosses: Someone who walks in (to a place, etc):
A customer, job applicant or similar who visits a restaurant, medical facility, car dealership, etc. without a reservation, appointment, or referral.
examples: text: Still, a rapidly formed working group of Mossad wise men debated the risk in dealing with a walk-in, a volunteer who shows up bearing gifts.
ref: 2007 April 10, “Who Killed Ashraf Marwan?”, in The New York Times, retrieved 18 Sep 2015:
glosses: Someone who walks in (to a place, etc):
A defector (or similar) who walks into an embassy (etc) unannounced.
glosses: A demonstration or protest in which the participants assemble outside a facility, gain media exposure, and enter the facility in unison.
examples: text: This soul-exchange happens without the body dying. Star People and Walk-ins can be of either orientation—positive or negative—although most from fifth density and beyond are positive.
ref: 2011, Gina Lake, ET Contact, page 8:
topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: A person whose original soul has departed the body and been replaced with another.