walk-in
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Deverbal from walk in.
Senses: examples: text: On multiple occasions, beginning when she was 12, Sara went to her local GP and to walk-in clinics wearing her hijab to get the morning-after pill.
ref: 2014 August 29, Ruzwana Bashir, “The untold story of how a culture of shame perpetuates abuse. I know, I was a victim”, in The Guardian:
glosses: That may be walked into:
That people may enter without a prior appointment.
raw_tags: of a place
examples: text: Aspen is a walk-in tent campground with sites tucked in among the pine
ref: 2007, Fred Dow, Suzanne Dow, U. S. National Forest Campground Guide:
glosses: That may be walked into:
Accessed by walking, either exclusively, as a campground, or together with drive-in access, as at some drive-in movie theaters.
raw_tags: of a facility
examples: text: Our roomy superior category double looked out onto the open wraparound promenade through one-way glass that reversed its view at night. The closet was walk-in, and the bath had a full tub. The TV brought in both the BBC and Euronews, ...
ref: 1999, Cruise Travel, page 47:
text: The closet was walk-in, but all the clothes had been shoved to one side over a low dresser. The other side was consumed by shelves spanning from floor to ceiling. Arranged on the shelves were boxes of every shape and size neatly labeled ...
ref: 2011, Paradise Avenger, The Breaking of Poisonwood, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 80:
text: My closet was walk-in with plenty of hanging space and drawers, but most of my clothes ended up on the floor anyway.
ref: 2017, K M Randall, Blue Sun, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
glosses: That may be walked into:
Spacious enough to walk into.
qualifier: pantry; refrigerator; freezer; etc; pantry; refrigerator; freezer; etc
raw_tags: of a closet
examples: text: a walk-in bathtub
text: “The shower is walk in, multiple showerheads and a tiled bench. Take your time, I installed one of those perpetual hot water heaters, so you can have an endless experience. If you're not out in an hour, I'll call 911.”
ref: 2016, Douglas E Roff, Jacob A Roff, Cryptid: Discovery, BookBaby, →ISBN:
text: Eighteen-inch ceramic tiles, laid diagonally, made the home seem bigger. Opposite the kitchen was the bedroom wing with a master suite plus two other bedrooms, each having its own bath. All the showers were walk-in.
ref: 2018, Forrest Steele, Never Again, Seriously, Archway Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: That may be walked into:
Designed to be possible to walk into (without stepping over a ledge, etc).
examples: text: … (locations, that are vulnerable to walk-in robbery), which makes isolation of the value from UCR statistics impossible.
ref: 1976, Warner A. Eliot, John R. Strack, Alice E. Witter, National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. National Evaluation Program, Mitre Corporation, Early-warning robbery reduction projects: an assessment of performance, section II, § A, page 6
text: [...], not least because the offence can vary from a quick walk-in theft to planned and targeted plundering.
ref: 2010, Andrew Ashworth, Sentencing and Criminal Justice, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 137:
glosses: Gaining access through unlocked doors.
raw_tags: of a thief or theft
examples: ref: (Can we date this quote?), “terminologies”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Tulpa.io:
qualifier: multiplicity slang
glosses: A headmate who shows up in a system fully formed.
qualifier: multiplicity slang
glosses: A headmate who shows up in a system fully formed.
Can be a fictive, factive, or neither
Related terms: walk-in closet
walk-up