walkers

Noun

walker (plural walkers)

1. The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.
   • The park was full of morning walkers enjoying the fresh air.
2. (rare) One who walks (takes for a walk).
   • Accompanying her was Prinny, who was made very happy by this intimation that he was to be taken for a walk, an undertaking for which the servants generally drew lots, the dog’s mass being so considerable and energetic that the walker inevitably became the walkee.1986, Maggie MacKeever, Lady Sherry and the Highwayman, New York, N.Y.: Fawcett Crest, →ISBN, page 17
3. A walking frame or baby walker.
   • The elderly woman used a walker to help her move around more easily.

   Synonyms:

   rollator, Zimmer frame

4. (in plural, often) A shoe designed for comfortable walking.
5. A zombie.
   • Dead people, walkers, as you call them, are somehow, and for some reason, attacking.1980, Gary Brandner, chapter 17, in Walkers (fiction; paperback), Fawcett Publications, →ISBN
6. A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.
   • He's really just a 'walker' for old ladies!" Walkers, now, are a special breed of pilot fish — entertaining male escorts.1980 December 29, New York, volume 14, number 1, page 26

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