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walk off

adj, noun, verb — 8 senses

walk-off

adjalso spelled walk-off
1

Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports Of a hit That drives in a run that ends a game.

  • Scott Podsednik hit the twelfth walk-off home run in World Series history on October 23rd, 2005.
2

By extension, any scoring event in sports that ends the game.

walk-off

noun
1

A prisoner who escapes custody without violence by taking advantage of the opportunity provided by negligent or distracted guards.

2

A walkout.

3

Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports Any event or action in the bottom of the last inning of a game that scores a run and thereby ends the game with a victory to the team at bat.

  • It was the Brewers' first walk-off walk since May 4, 2005, when Damien Miller drew a walk to win the game, 4-3, at home over the Cubs.2010 May 27, “Brewers overcome errors in walk-off win”, in MLB.com:

walk off

verb
1

To recover from (a minor injury) or digest (a large meal) by walking around.

  • It doesn't feel too bad. Let me walk it off.
  • Whoa, they shot a guy? Just walk it off / Another genocide? Man, just walk it off / No, this cant be right (nah, nah, nah), just walk it off2025, “Kubrick Stare”, performed by Stray From The Path:
2

To measure a distance by walking, as by counting paces or extending a measuring tape or rope.

3

To flee or abandon.

Derived terms
walk off the job

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — authors: page histories for walk-off and walk off.