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Walk-over. World English Historical Dictionary

Walk-over. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Walk-over [f. vbl. phrase walk over: see WALK v.1 7 c.] A race in which through absence of competitors the winner has merely to ‘walk over’; also in extended sense, a contest in which through the inferiority of his competitors the winner has practically no opposition.

1 1838.  Times, 29 June, 8/3. [Election at Cashel] I think it not unlikely that Mr. Richard Moore may have a walk over.

2 1861.  Sporting Rev., Oct., 249. Kettledrum’s walk-over was quite a little tit-bit for the Yorkshiremen.

3 1889.  F. Remington, in Century Mag., July, 403/1. That ’s the bay stallion there,… and he ’s never been beaten. It ’s his walk-over, and I ’ve got my gun up on him with an Injun.

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