walk out

verb

1. to leave without explanation, esp in anger
2. to go on strike
3. walk out on informal.
   walk out on to abandon or desert
4. walk out with obsolete.
   walk out with to court or be courted by

noun

1. a strike by workers
2. the act of leaving a meeting, conference, etc, as a protest

walk-out

1. The action of leaving a meeting, place of work, or organization as an expression of disapproval or grievance: “During Grimm's speech, the radical students staged a walk-out.”

Example Sentences

“We don't want the audience to walk out and think 'There's nothing we can do,'” says Hill.

From The Daily Beast

You’d get in a fight with somebody at a bar and it was totally cool to walk out and shoot ‘em.

From The Daily Beast

If Russell Crowe appears with a sword, they walk out of the theater.

From The Daily Beast

And finally, we walk out to the football game and sit down in the bleachers.

From The Daily Beast

It was planned that they would be able to walk out of the property.

From The Daily Beast

Ask one young lady in the company whether she thinks, if she clasped her hands, she could walk out of the room.

From Project Gutenberg

He would walk out to meet her, burning with impatience; and he would ask for the paper, and see a blank look come over her face.

From Project Gutenberg

He would believe the promise when his prison door stood open, when he was free to walk out unhindered, not before.

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Now, let us walk out to the end of this point of land, and see if we can discover any opening in the reef.

From Project Gutenberg

Through Theodore I now offered the guards fifty Turkish pounds if they would turn their backs and let me walk out alone.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• disappear
• escape
• flee
• fly
• go
• move
• quit
• retire
• start
• take off
• withdraw