walkover
IPA: wˈɔkoʊvɝ
noun
- An easy victory; a walkaway.
- (sports) A bye or victory awarded to a competitor when a scheduled opponent fails to play a game.
- A horse race with only one entrant.
- (sports, chiefly) Someone easy to defeat.
- (colloquial) Someone who does not stand up for themselves when mistreated; a doormat.
- (gymnastics) A backbend combined with a handstand.
- A type of railroad passenger car seat, having reversible seat backs that can be moved across the seat to face either direction of travel
- An ecological survey carried out by walking across and examining a piece of land.
walk over
IPA: wˈɔkoʊvɝ
verb
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: to walk over.
- (idiomatic) To gain an easy victory.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To dominate, treat (someone) as inferior.
walk-over
IPA: wˈɔkoʊvɝ
noun
- Alternative spelling of walkover [An easy victory; a walkaway.]
Examples of "walkover" in Sentences
- The rest of the teams had a walkover.
- I am not saying it will be a walkover.
- The campaign was a walkover for the French.
- UNCAF decided to award Saprissa a walkover.
- He won the Pimlico Special in a rare walkover.
- Not unexpectedly, more and more of these "walkover"
- It was the only walkover victory in Olympic history.
- A. Dublin received a walkover from Laois in the final.
- It is not really addressed as a walkover, but a retirement.
- In the 2006 general election, it won the GRC with a walkover.
- Hiestand: Even in walkover, Tiger gives CBS big ratings boost.
- Amr had visualized that the conquest of Egypt would be a walkover.
- I get nervous everytime the idea of a Welsh walkover is mentioned or implied.
- Motion capture instruments and videos of the sessions also helped to document slip outcomes ( "skate-over", "walkover" or "loss of balance") and falls.
- The Congress today gifted Sushma Swaraj a "walkover" in the Vidisha seat as the nomination papers of the party's candidate were rejected by the collector.
- True, we did not know all this, but if any man on that ground besides Wood and Howard expected a "walkover" his must have been a singularly hopeful disposition.
- "From the first day of spring training to where we are now, nothing about this season has been easy or in any remote sense would be called a walkover," Scioscia said.
- Wigan won't be any kind of walkover, I don't suppose any game is when you've got the jittery Almunia behind Sylvester, but we've got to go out and rise to the challenge.
- Because he says that they were both shot at the shoreline, and then he dragged his wife -- they both were shot at that point -- he dragged her up to the walkover, which is where you would walk over to get back to the highway.
Examples of "walk-over" in Sentences
- Sunday's game for gold was supposed to be a walk-over for the USA.
- The race went from a walk-over for Allen to a nail-biter as "macaca" became a massive national story.
- When Federer broke serve in only the third game, he looked good for a walk-over – until Soderling rallied strongly.
- We already have the first result of the day, with Illlya Marchenko's shoulder injury giving Gilles Simon a walk-over through to the third round.
- Barrett's biggest challenge is to try to convince state Republicans (and national observers) that the runoff is not simply a walk-over for Haley but a real race.
- Everything personal is likely to be put on hold when the news breaks that the Persian King of kings Darius's vast army is marching on Greece, hoping its internal division will make its conquest a walk-over.
- In what should be a walk-over victory for the Republicans against a scandal-plagued failed banker, they are running a wishy-washy congressman with serious credibility problems regarding his prior achievements which makes the race a tossup.
- While the building code in most towns won't require a tear-off down to the sheathing unless your roof already has two layers, we at least a thorough sheathing inspection from beneath as well as an assessment of its condition during a walk-over evaluation.