Usually means: Customer without a prior appointment.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word walk-in:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. walk-in: Merriam-Webster
  2. walk-in: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. walk-in: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. walk-in, walk-in: Collins English Dictionary
  5. walk-in: Vocabulary.com
  6. Walk-In, Walk-in, walk-in: Wordnik
  7. walk-in: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. walk-in: Wiktionary
  9. walk-in: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. walk-in: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. walk-in: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. walk-in: Dictionary.com
  13. walk-in: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Walk-in: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. walk-in: Rhymezone
  16. walk-in: FreeDictionary.org
  17. walk-in: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. walk-in: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. walk-in: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. walk-in: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. walk-in: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. walk-in: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A facility or room which may be walked into:
noun:  A relatively small room (such as a closet or pantry) or refrigerator or freezer that is spacious enough to walk into.
noun:  A relatively larger room or (especially) an apartment that is entered directly, not via an intervening passage or lobby.
noun:  A facility or an event that principally handles customers who do not have an appointment.
noun:  A facility accessed on foot rather than by car, usually contrasted to drive-in.
noun:  Someone who walks in (to a place, etc):
noun:  A customer, job applicant or similar who visits a restaurant, medical facility, car dealership, etc. without a reservation, appointment, or referral.
noun:  A defector (or similar) who walks into an embassy (etc) unannounced.
noun:  A demonstration or protest in which the participants assemble outside a facility, gain media exposure, and enter the facility in unison.
noun:  (parapsychology) A person whose original soul has departed the body and been replaced with another.
adjective:  That may be walked into:
adjective:  (of a place) That people may enter without a prior appointment.
adjective:  (US, of a facility) Accessed by walking, either exclusively, as a campground, or together with drive-in access, as at some drive-in movie theaters.
adjective:  (of a closet, pantry, refrigerator, freezer, etc) Spacious enough to walk into.
adjective:  Designed to be possible to walk into (without stepping over a ledge, etc).
adjective:  (of a thief or theft) Gaining access through unlocked doors.

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