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Walt

proper nounnouncommon in dialogue

  • //wɔːlt//
  • //wɒlt//

A diminutive of the male given name Walter.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the male given name Walter.

Etymology

Clipping of Walter. The derogatory British sense is a reference to the fictional character Walter Mitty from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a mild-mannered pushover who has wild fantasies about his life in various daring roles.

noun

  1. 1

    slangSomeone who impersonates a veteran (retired member of the armed forces).

    You're just a bloody Walt!

Forms

plural
Walts
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).