walk-in
adjective
- in a free, non-appointment-having manner
Wiktionary
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree English walk indeverb. English walk-in Deverbal from walk in.
- That may be walked into:
“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.”
- That may be walked into:
“Aspen is a walk-in tent campground with sites tucked in among the pine”
- That may be walked into:
“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, ...”
“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 ...”
- That may be walked into:
“a walk-in bathtub”
““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.””
- Gaining access through unlocked doors.
“… (locations, that are vulnerable to walk-in robbery), which makes isolation of the value from UCR statistics impossible.”
“[...], not least because the offence can vary from a quick walk-in theft to planned and targeted plundering.”
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree English walk indeverb. English walk-in Deverbal from walk in.
- A facility or room which may be walked into:
- A facility or room which may be walked into:
“a walk-in bathroom, a walk-in apartment, lived in a walk-in on Lime Street”
“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.”
- A facility or room which may be walked into:
“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.”
- A facility or room which may be walked into:
“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.”
“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"”
- Someone who walks in (to a place, etc):
“An astute manager will have a table or two set aside for important regular customers or demanding walk-ins.”
“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,”
- Someone who walks in (to a place, etc):
“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.”
- A demonstration or protest in which the participants assemble outside a facility, gain media exposure, and enter the facility in unison.
- A person whose original soul has departed the body and been replaced with another.
“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.”
- A headmate (fictive, factive, or neither) who shows up in a system fully formed.