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Walk the streets, especially in search of employment. For example, He was fired last year and he's been pounding the pavement ever since . A similar usage is pound a beat , meaning “to walk a particular route over and over”; it is nearly always applied to a police officer. [Early 1900s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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