walkoff
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noun Informal.
a person who escapes easily, especially by walking away from a place of detention; a walkaway: The guards rounded up the walk-offs from the prison farm.
Origin:
1935–40; noun use of verb phrase walk off
1935–40; noun use of verb phrase walk off
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Walkoff
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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