walk outverb

• 1

  To stage a walkout or strike.

  • 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".
• 2

  To leave suddenly, especially as a form of protest.

• 3

  datedTo go out with; to be romantically involved.

  • 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.
• 4

  obsoleteTo go for a walk outdoors; to go out.

  • [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.
  • 1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 118, 4 May, 1751, Volume 4, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, p. 161, The Turks are said to hear with wonder a proposal to walk out, only that they may walk back; and enquire, why any man should labour for nothing:
• 5

  To accompany (someone) as they leave a house or other building.

• 6

  To continue or persist in carrying (something) out or following through (with something); to persevere.

  • Too many of us want to believe God for a miracle rather than trust him to bring us through. For some situations, healing takes time, and we have just got to walk it out.
• 7

  hobbieslifestylesportsTo step away with when carrying the weight in order not to hit the rack it was lifted off from during execution of the exercise.