walkout
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walkout
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A deverbal from walk out.
noun walkouts · walk-out
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A sudden stoppage of work.
Thursday’s walkout occurred three weeks after several dozen employees at warehouses that serve Walmart walked off the job in California and Illinois to protest what they said were onerous conditions, including toiling in warehouses that they said sometimes heat up to 120 degrees.
Similar: strike
- A similar mass action of people leaving a place as a form of protest. Many people agreed this play did not belong in the festival: this tied with House on Mayhem Street for most walkouts, and was the subject of much angry discussion afterwards.
- A part of the squat exercise wherein one has to step out from the rack (“walk out” the weight) in order not to hit it during execution.
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Synonym of ringwalk (“fighter's glamorous entrance into the ring”).
Similar: ringwalk
verb walk-out
- Misspelling of walk out
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Talk about this word "walkout." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/walkout. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. walkout. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/walkout "walkout." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/walkout.Cite this
@misc{walkout_2026,
title = {walkout},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/walkout},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
