walk-in

== English == === Etymology === Deverbal from walk in. === Noun === walk-in (plural walk-ins) A facility or room which may be walked into: A relatively small room (such as a closet or pantry) or refrigerator or freezer that is spacious enough to walk into. A relatively larger room or (especially) an apartment that is entered directly, not via an intervening passage or lobby. a walk-in bathroom, a walk-in apartment, lived in a walk-in on Lime Street A facility or an event that principally handles customers who do not have an appointment. 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 accessed on foot rather than by car, usually contrasted to drive-in. Someone who walks in (to a place, etc): A customer, job applicant or similar who visits a restaurant, medical facility, car dealership, etc. without a reservation, appointment, or referral. A defector (or similar) who walks into an embassy (etc) unannounced. A demonstration or protest in which the participants assemble outside a facility, gain media exposure, and enter the facility in unison. (parapsychology) A person whose original soul has departed the body and been replaced with another. (multiplicity slang) A headmate (fictive, factive, or neither) who shows up in a system fully formed. === Adjective === walk-in (not comparable) That may be walked into: (of a place) That people may enter without a prior appointment. (US, of a facility) Accessed by walking, either exclusively, as a campground, or together with drive-in access, as at some drive-in movie theaters. (of a closet, pantry, refrigerator, freezer, etc) Spacious enough to walk into. Designed to be possible to walk into (without stepping over a ledge, etc). a walk-in bathtub (of a thief or theft) Gaining access through unlocked doors. 1976, Warner A. Eliot, John R. Strack, Alice E. Witter, National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. National Evaluation Program, Mitre Corporation, Early-warning robbery reduction projects: an assessment of performance, section II, § A, page 6: [...] (locations, that are vulnerable to walk-in robbery), which makes isolation of the value from UCR statistics impossible. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === walk-up === References === John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “walk-in”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN. “walk-in”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. === Anagrams === Kinlaw