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walk on

verb
  1. To come onstage. · He walks on after your line.
  2. To join a college sports team without being recruited for it. · He walked on this year.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see walk, on.
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Why should a man walk on tiptoe down the alley?”
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 33 · C1
I must request you to walk on tiptoe and not to talk above a whisper.”
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 187 · C1
The count looked at Mercédès as if to interrogate her, but she continued to walk on in silence, and he refrained from speaking.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 731 · C1

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