walk alone

noun, verb — 4 senses

walk-alone

nounalso spelled walk-alone

Etymology Deverbal from walk alone.

1

US A prison inmate who is kept apart from the other prisoners for their own safety.

walk alone

verb

1

Literally To walk without any companion.

2

Figuratively To do something without help from anyone else, to be unaided in one's task.

I walk this lonely road, the only one that I have ever known. [I] don't know where it goes, but it's only me, and I walk alone.2004 September 21, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”, in American Idiot, performed by Green Day:

3

Figuratively, Poetic To be lonely, to desire social accompaniment.

Derived terms: walk-alone

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