1
: a minor part (as in a dramatic production)
also
: an actor having such a part
2
: a college athlete who tries out for an athletic team without having been recruited or offered a scholarship
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Zach Carter, a 34-year-old walk-on head coach, has guided Bellflower High to its first league basketball championship since 1978 in his second season as a head coach.
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Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2025
Some of the objections have come from walk-on football players, who aren’t eligible for payments, and athletes in small sports who are receiving very small payments.
—Eddie Pells, Twin Cities, 31 Jan. 2025
Guiton inherits a quarterback room that will look almost entirely different from last season, save for the return of redshirt freshman walk-on Milos Spasojevic.
—Jesse Temple, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
Toward the end of the video, there are walk-on cameos from Lady Gaga and Rosé, the far more conventional duet partners with whom Mars has a pair of recent smashes, but who clearly want some of this refracted salaciousness for themselves.
—Jon Pareles, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
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Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2025
Some of the objections have come from walk-on football players, who aren’t eligible for payments, and athletes in small sports who are receiving very small payments.
—Eddie Pells, Twin Cities, 31 Jan. 2025
Guiton inherits a quarterback room that will look almost entirely different from last season, save for the return of redshirt freshman walk-on Milos Spasojevic.
—Jesse Temple, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
Toward the end of the video, there are walk-on cameos from Lady Gaga and Rosé, the far more conventional duet partners with whom Mars has a pair of recent smashes, but who clearly want some of this refracted salaciousness for themselves.
—Jon Pareles, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
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“Walk-on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/walk-on. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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