"walkalong" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2014, Garth Lean, Russell Staff, editors, Stories of Cosmopolitan Belonging: Emotion and Location",
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        "(sociology) A type of interview in which the interviewer and subject walk together while talking."
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          "ref": "1988 August 26, Steve Bogira, Hank De Zutter, Ron Dorfman, Robert McClory, David Moberg, Grant Pick, Gary Rivlin, “They Were There”, in Chicago Reader",
          "text": "In the period before, when Martin Luther King was here walking through the different neighborhoods, I was in the walkalongs, the police protection, on the north side and on the south side.",
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        "A police detail or other group that walks with someone."
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          "ref": "1972, George S. Fichter, Bicycling, page 17",
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