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"ref": "1980, Gary Brandner, chapter 17, in Walkers (fiction; paperback), Fawcett Publications",
"text": "Dead people, walkers, as you call them, are somehow, and for some reason, attacking.",
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"ref": "1980 December 29, New York, volume 14, number 1, page 26",
"text": "He's really just a 'walker' for old ladies!\" Walkers, now, are a special breed of pilot fish — entertaining male escorts.",
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"ref": "1981, Spare rib: Volumes 108-119",
"text": "Women at the top — Lady Di and Nancy Reagan in particular — apparently have 'walkers' — men to escort them on public and private occasions providing a respectable cover, while the male who is their sexual partner is off on more pressing business.",
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"ref": "1984, Clemens David Heymann, Poor little rich girl: the life and legend of Barbara Hutton",
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"ref": "2011, Dave Wolverton, The Courtship of Princess Leia: Star Wars Legends, page 144",
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"word": "caminhante"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xodók",
"sense": "person who walks",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "ходо́к"
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"code": "ru",
"english": "pedestrian",
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"sense": "person who walks",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "пешехо́д"
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{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "person who walks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "coisiche"
},
{
"code": "si",
"lang": "Sinhalese",
"sense": "person who walks",
"word": "sprehajalec"
},
{
"code": "si",
"lang": "Sinhalese",
"sense": "person who walks",
"word": "sprehajalka"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "person who walks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "caminante"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "person who walks",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "gående"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "person who walks",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "fotgängare"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "person who walks",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "vandrare"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"raw_tags": [
"in walking races"
],
"sense": "person who walks",
"tags": [
"common-gender",
"especially"
],
"word": "gångare"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prohodilka",
"sense": "walking frame",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "проходилка"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "walking frame",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "déambulateur"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "walking frame",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "göngugrind"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "walking frame",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "deambulatore"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "walking frame",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rullator"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "vâker",
"sense": "walking frame",
"word": "واکر"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "walking frame",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "andador"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "walking frame",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "andador"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "walking frame",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "andadera"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "walking frame",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "rollator"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "shoe designed for comfortable walking",
"word": "kävelykenkä"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "shoe designed for comfortable walking",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "gångsko"
}
],
"word": "walker"
}
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"Rhymes:English/ɔːkə(ɹ)",
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"waulker#English"
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"ipa": "/ˈwɔːkə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
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{
"ipa": "/ˈwɔkɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
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{
"ipa": "/ˈwɑkɚ/",
"tags": [
"Canada",
"cot-caught-merger"
]
},
{
"homophone": "waulker"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔːkə(ɹ)"
},
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"tags": [
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