Usually means: Athlete without scholarship, team tryout.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word walk-on:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. walk-on: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. walk-on: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. walk-on: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. walk-on, walk-on: Collins English Dictionary
  5. walk-on: Vocabulary.com
  6. Walk-On, Walk-on, walk-on: Wordnik
  7. walk-on: Wiktionary
  8. walk-on: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. walk-on: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. walk-on: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. walk-on: Dictionary.com
  12. walk-on: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Walk-on: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. walk-on: Rhymezone
  15. walk-on: Free Dictionary
  16. walk-on: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. walk-on: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A student athlete who wants to try out for a college sports or athletic team without the benefit of a scholarship or having been recruited.
noun:  An actor of a small (or "bit") part in a theatrical production or film, often without speaking lines.
noun:  (chiefly attributive) Such a part in a play or film.
noun:  One who arrives and boards transport (such as a train or ferry) without having booked in advance.

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