walk-in

Meanings

1. A facility or room which may be walked into:
2. A relatively small room (such as a closet or pantry) or refrigerator or freezer that is spacious enough to walk into.
3. A relatively larger room or (especially) an apartment that is entered directly, not via an intervening passage or lobby.
4. A facility or an event that principally handles customers who do not have an appointment.
5. A facility accessed on foot rather than by car, usually contrasted to drive-in.
6. Someone who walks in (to a place, etc):
7. A customer, job applicant or similar who visits a restaurant, medical facility, car dealership, etc. without a reservation, appointment, or referral.
8. A defector (or similar) who walks into an embassy (etc) unannounced.
9. A demonstration or protest in which the participants assemble outside a facility, gain media exposure, and enter the facility in unison.
10. A person whose original soul has departed the body and been replaced with another.

1. That may be walked into:
2. That people may enter without a prior appointment.
3. Accessed by walking, either exclusively, as a campground, or together with drive-in access, as at some drive-in movie theaters.
4. Spacious enough to walk into.
5. Designed to be possible to walk into (without stepping over a ledge, etc).
6. Gaining access through unlocked doors.
7. A headmate who shows up in a system fully formed.
8. Can be a fictive, factive, or neither

Etymology

Deverbal from walk in.