Usually means: Fantasizer leading a double life.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word Walter Mitty:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. walter mitty: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Walter Mitty, Walter Mitty: Merriam-Webster
  3. Walter Mitty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Walter Mitty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Walter Mitty: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Walter Mitty: Vocabulary.com
  7. Walter Mitty: Wiktionary
  8. Walter Mitty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. Walter Mitty: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. walter mitty: Dictionary.com
  11. Walter Mitty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Walter mitty: Rhymezone
  13. walter mitty: FreeDictionary.org
  14. walter mitty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Walter Mitty: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. Mitty, Walter: Who2

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mitty, Walter: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Walter Mitty: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Walter Mitty: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See walter_mittyish as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Walter Mitty)

noun:  A sad or pathetic person given to flights of fancy; a daydreamer.
noun:  An imposter, especially one falsely claiming to have done military service.

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