walk-off

walk-off
/wawk"awf', -of'/, n. Informal.
a person who escapes easily, esp. by walking away from a place of detention; a walkaway: The guards rounded up the walk-offs from the prison farm.
[1935-40; n. use of v. phrase walk off]

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