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walk in

verb
  1. To come without an appointment to a place that would normally require one. · If you walk in, you're going to have to wait at least an hour.
  2. To step to the rack again with after having stepped away in order not to hit it during execution of the exercise. (transitive)
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see walk, in.
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Turn Chartreux or Trappist, and relate your secrets, but, as for me, I do not like anyone who is alarmed by such phantasms, and I do not choose that my servants should be afraid to walk in the garden of an evening.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 463 · C1
“They would be just the thing to take a long walk in, for they could not wear out.”
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 13 · B2
It is far more becoming to go straight forward.” The young Crab replied: “Quite true, dear Mother; and if you will show me the straight way, I will promise to walk in it.” The Mother tried in vain, and submitted without remonstrance to the reproof of her child.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 28 · B2
Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a few hundred pounds.’
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 8 · B2

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