walking
adjective/ˈwɔːkɪŋ/
/ˈwɔːkɪŋ/
[only before noun] (informal)- used to describe a human or living example of the thing mentioned
- She's a walking dictionary (= she knows a lot of words).
- That boy's a walking disaster (= he is always having accidents).
Oxford Collocations DictionaryWalking is used with these nouns:- advertisement
- corpse
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