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Walk out   /wɔk aʊt/   Listen
Walk out

verb
1.
Stop work in order to press demands.  Synonym: strike.  "The employees walked out when their demand for better benefits was not met"
2.
Leave abruptly, often in protest or anger.
3.
Leave suddenly, often as an expression of disapproval.



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"Walk out" Quotes from Famous Books



... passage-way. The door was cut so low that he had to duck his head. He came in with a stoop, but straightening himself in the majesty of conscious hospitality, he bowed and said: "Gentlemen, you will please walk out to supper." ...
— Old Ebenezer • Opie Read
... how this faithful beast accustomed itself to the darkness, and made its other senses, especially that of smell, serve the purpose of eyes as do the blind. By degrees, too, it learned all the details of the operations; thus, when the cartridge was in place for firing, it would rise and begin to walk out of the tunnel even before ...
— Queen Sheba's Ring • H. Rider Haggard
... Collini ("word. of honor" fallen dubious to them, dubious or more),—having laid their plan, striving to think it fair in the circumstances,—walk out from the Lion d'Or, "Voltaire in black-velvet coat," [Ib. p. 46.] with their valuablest effects (LA PUCELLE and money-box included); leaving Madame Denis to wait the disimprisonment of OEUVRE DE POESIE and wind up the general business. Walk ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVI. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great--The Ten Years of Peace.--1746-1756. • Thomas Carlyle
... stand for our city—Vulgarian!" cried the colonel. "And his wife will walk out before me," cried the colonel's lady,—"nasty woman!" And she burst ...
— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... little boys, who know the whole of the programme by heart, long before the caravans containing the tents and scenery arrive. Hundreds of these little chaps are up before day-break on the expected morning of the show, and walk out to Shannonville, a distance of ...
— Life in the Clearings versus the Bush • Susanna Moodie


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