walk-in

noun, adjective

Forms walk-ins

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

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “walk-in”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details