walk out
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.06 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To continue or persist in carrying (something) out or following through (with something); to persevere.
Transitive verb
verb
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.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Postal workers are set to walk out tomorrow if contract negotiations fail."
- "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"."
- "The maidservant has been walking out with the butcher’s man."
- "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."
- "And Maud, surely seventeen by now. Did she have a boy to walk out with?"
- "[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."