walk-in

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walk-in

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Deverbal from walk in.

noun walk-ins

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.
A facility accessed on foot rather than by car, usually contrasted to drive-in. This consideration applies to the location of all types of petroleum-solvent cleaning plants, whether operated as delivery plants, drive-ins, walk-ins, or wholesale establishments.
A customer, job applicant or similar who visits a restaurant, medical facility, car dealership, etc. without a reservation, appointment, or referral. An astute manager will have a table or two set aside for important regular customers or demanding walk-ins.
A defector (or similar) who walks into an embassy (etc) unannounced. Still, a rapidly formed working group of Mossad wise men debated the risk in dealing with a walk-in, a volunteer who shows up bearing gifts.
A demonstration or protest in which the participants assemble outside a facility, gain media exposure, and enter the facility in unison.
A person whose original soul has departed the body and been replaced with another. This soul-exchange happens without the body dying. Star People and Walk-ins can be of either orientation—positive or negative—although most from fifth density and beyond are positive.
A headmate (fictive, factive, or neither) who shows up in a system fully formed.

adjective

not comparable, of a place That people may enter without a prior appointment. On multiple occasions, beginning when she was 12, Sara went to her local GP and to walk-in clinics wearing her hijab to get the morning-after pill.
US, not comparable, of a facility Accessed by walking, either exclusively, as a campground, or together with drive-in access, as at some drive-in movie theaters. Aspen is a walk-in tent campground with sites tucked in among the pine
not comparable, of a closet Spacious enough to walk into. Our roomy superior category double looked out onto the open wraparound promenade through one-way glass that reversed its view at night. The closet was walk-in, and the bath had a full tub. The TV brought in both the BBC and Euronews, ...
not comparable Designed to be possible to walk into (without stepping over a ledge, etc). a walk-in bathtub
not comparable, of a thief or theft Gaining access through unlocked doors. … (locations, that are vulnerable to walk-in robbery), which makes isolation of the value from UCR statistics impossible.

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adj without appointments before

Español	sin cita/reserva/reservación

adj spacious enough to walk into

Deutsch	begehbar

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@misc{walk_in_2026,
  title = {walk-in},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/walk-in},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}