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- noun Plural form of
walk-on .
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Examples
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Portraiture seems an inert metaphor for a country as bewildering and changeable as India, and in fact, part of the pleasure of reading "The Beautiful and the Damned" is that both the principal characters and the unexpected walk-ons seem anything but frozen in a time or place.
New India, Old Schemes Deborah Baker 2011
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The interest is the interplay between the three main characters, Oedipus himself, Jocasta and her brother Cleon, as the story is unfolded to them by a succession of walk-ons (Tiresias, the messenger, the shepherd, etc) - although the plot covers the whole of Oedipus 'life, the setting of the play respects the unities and takes place over a few hours or possibly days.
Lightsecond nwhyte 2009
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Additional ups and downs follow, with TV walk-ons and screen tests and her being selected as a cover girl randomly.
Leonard Starr’s Mary Perkins on Stage » Comics Worth Reading 2009
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Which means both teams could put their undefeated records in the hands — or feet — of walk-ons.
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In 2007, the nation's top five teams featured walk-ons or former walk-ons.
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The easiest fix would appear to be to relax those male participation limits, not cut male participants from different sports so that schools could comply with them while taking the walk-ons in track or swimming or whatever and/or still having those secondary programs, no?
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"They end up giving scholarships to a lot of walk-ons."
SEC Coaches Defend 'Oversigning' Hannah Karp 2011
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There were no guest spots or walk-ons to share the spotlight - just Blige alone, wearing a pair of stiletto-heeled boots, teetering across a stage set that looked like a space-age makeup counter.
In concert: Mary J. Blige at Jiffy Lube Live Aaron Leitko 2010
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I never intended to write what they call a roman-a-clef, or one of those books where real celebrities of the past do walk-ons and help the hero solve the mystery.
An Interview with John Dunning, author of Two O'Clock Eastern Wartime 2010
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This year, starting walk-ons for top-25 teams have made 93% of their field goals.
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