walker

Substantiv

1. 1

   The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.

   The park was full of morning walkers enjoying the fresh air.

   He decided to become a long-distance walker for charity events.

   I would ask for the pleasure of your company, Mr. Knightley, but I am a very slow walker, and my pace would be tedious to you; and, besides, you have another long walk before you, to Donwell Abbey.

   We hired a walker for the dogs during the day.

2. 2

   seltenOne who walks (takes for a walk).

   Accompanying her was Prinny, who was made very happy by this intimation that he was to be taken for a walk, an undertaking for which the servants generally drew lots, the dog’s mass being so considerable and energetic that the walker inevitably became the walkee.

   Consequently, he had developed a new variation on an old habit. That of grabbing the leash between his teeth and pulling as hard as he could, making it look as if he were the walker, and the walker the walkee.

   I remember that walking a dog is a good way to get both the walker and the walkee in shape.

3. 3

   A walking frame or baby walker.

   The elderly woman used a walker to help her move around more easily.

4. 4

   A shoe designed for comfortable walking.

5. 5

   A zombie.

   Dead people, walkers, as you call them, are somehow, and for some reason, attacking.

6. 6

   A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.

   He's really just a 'walker' for old ladies!" Walkers, now, are a special breed of pilot fish — entertaining male escorts.

   Women at the top — Lady Di and Nancy Reagan in particular — apparently have 'walkers' — men to escort them on public and private occasions providing a respectable cover, while the male who is their sexual partner is off on more pressing business.

   In the vernacular of the trade, he was what is commonly known as "a walker" — an entertaining male escort who is usually sexually unthreatening […]

   – Do you think they’re sausages? said Samia, a colleague whom Jane had brought along as her walker.

7. 7

   A gressorial bird.

8. 8

   A forester.

9. 9

   A kind of military robot or mecha with legs for locomotion.

   Two of the walkers circled the pillars. Their searchlights played through the trees, then turned back to Leia and the others.

   It also takes a good amount of inspiration from Metal Gear Solid 4s biomechanical designs, namely the Gekko walkers' and their synthetic musculature.

10. 10

    A batsman or batswoman who directly walks off the field when out without waiting for the umpire's decision.

11. 11

    A prostitute, streetwalker.

    A single mother of three, Rachel is what Facebook users call as ^([sic]) “walker,” or an online sex worker. Using a dummy account, she posts her sexy photos and informs page visitors that she’s available for sex in exchange for money.

Substantiv

1. 1

   Variante von waulkerAlternative form of waulker.

Formen

Plural

walkers