Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Large enough to admit entrance.
  • adjective Located so as to be entered directly from the street.
  • noun A room large enough to admit entrance.
  • noun One who arrives for or wishes to get something, such as a service, without having an appointment or reservation.
  • noun One who defects to another country after walking into its embassy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of a place that people may enter without a prior appointment
  • adjective of a thief that gains access through unlocked doors
  • adjective of a defector, etc. that walks into an embassy etc unannounced
  • adjective US not a drive-in
  • adjective of a room entered without an intervening passage
  • noun a walk-in room or closet
  • noun a walk-in defector etc.
  • noun parapsychology A person whose original soul has departed the body and been replaced with another.
  • noun A customer who visits a restaurant without a reservation.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of e.g. closets or refrigerators) extending very far enough back to allow a person to enter
  • noun person who walks in without having an appointment
  • noun an operative who initiates his own defection (usually to a hostile country) for political asylum
  • noun an assured victory (especially in an election)
  • noun a small room large enough to admit entrance

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Examples

  • The report helpfully cited the definition of walk-in in Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage, by Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen: “An unheralded defector or a dangle, a ‘walk-in’ is a potential agent or a mole who literally walks into an embassy or intelligence agency without prior contact or recruitment.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • The report helpfully cited the definition of walk-in in Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage, by Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen: “An unheralded defector or a dangle, a ‘walk-in’ is a potential agent or a mole who literally walks into an embassy or intelligence agency without prior contact or recruitment.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • The report helpfully cited the definition of walk-in in Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage, by Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen: “An unheralded defector or a dangle, a ‘walk-in’ is a potential agent or a mole who literally walks into an embassy or intelligence agency without prior contact or recruitment.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • The report helpfully cited the definition of walk-in in Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage, by Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen: “An unheralded defector or a dangle, a ‘walk-in’ is a potential agent or a mole who literally walks into an embassy or intelligence agency without prior contact or recruitment.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • I resisted the temptation to use a phone kiosk and call the walk-in clinic to get the results of my HIV test – out of the fear that someone would report back to them that I was seen on the phone and, ergo, to the cops.

    The Woman in the Fifth Douglas Kennedy 2007

  • I resisted the temptation to use a phone kiosk and call the walk-in clinic to get the results of my HIV test – out of the fear that someone would report back to them that I was seen on the phone and, ergo, to the cops.

    The Woman in the Fifth Douglas Kennedy 2007

  • I resisted the temptation to use a phone kiosk and call the walk-in clinic to get the results of my HIV test – out of the fear that someone would report back to them that I was seen on the phone and, ergo, to the cops.

    The Woman in the Fifth Douglas Kennedy 2007

  • I resisted the temptation to use a phone kiosk and call the walk-in clinic to get the results of my HIV test – out of the fear that someone would report back to them that I was seen on the phone and, ergo, to the cops.

    The Woman in the Fifth Douglas Kennedy 2007

  • However, when a source, worried about confirming a leak, waves a reporter off a story that is true as Cox did with my early query about a walk-in, that is considered by the inquirer to be a misstep in the symbiosis minuet.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • However, when a source, worried about confirming a leak, waves a reporter off a story that is true as Cox did with my early query about a walk-in, that is considered by the inquirer to be a misstep in the symbiosis minuet.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

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