walkalong
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A police detail or other group that walks with someone.
noun
A dandy-horse, a 19th-century precursor of the bicycle.
Example Sentences
- "The method of walkalongs, first described by Margarethe Kusenbach (2003), combines interview and observation."
- "This chapter draws on our ethnographic analysis of the diaries, walkalongs and followup conversations with Janet, who had recently resigned from a managerial position to look after her first child."
- "In the period before, when Martin Luther King was here walking through the different neighborhoods, I was in the walkalongs, the police protection, on the north side and on the south side."
- "All fork lift trucks, platform trucks, walkalongs, cranes, and four-wheeled trucks should be checked for capacities."
- "They were called walkalongs, dandy horses, hobby-horses, or Draisines."