Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

walk off with

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.02 in modern English

Syllables: walk of-f with
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To steal, especially by surreptitiously removing an unguarded item.

verb

To win, as in a contest and especially without significant effort.

verb

To make the strongest favorable impression in a theatrical or similar performance, in comparison to other performers.

Example Sentences

"While Mike Donovan was engaged in his contest with Paul, his companion had quietly walked off with the shirt."
"I went looking for Red Denny, the head canvas-man, who had walked off with my pocket-knife."
"Hotel guests may want to think twice now before walking off with that bathrobe."
"Last week in Cleveland, Harry Hopman's Aussies walked off with tennis' top trophy, the Davis Cup."
"But kindliness does not prevent elegant Actor Woolley from walking off with the picture against the trying competition of six scene-stealing children."
"But in "La Cenerentola," Rossini's version of the fairy tale, which returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday night, Juan Diego Flórez, the 29-year-old Peruvian tenor, walked off with the show."

Inflected Forms

walks off with (present, singular) walking off with (participle, present) walked off with (participle, past) walked off with (past)

Synonyms

abscond with pilfer thieve steal the show

Questions

What does walk off with mean?: To steal, especially by surreptitiously removing an unguarded item.

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