walkover
(noun) backbends combined with handstands
cinch, breeze, picnic, snap, duck soup, child's play, pushover, walkover, piece of cake
(noun) any undertaking that is easy to do; “marketing this product will be no picnic”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
walkover (plural walkovers)
An easy victory; a walkaway.
(sports) A bye or victory awarded to a competitor when a scheduled opponent fails to play a game.
A horse race with only one entrant.
(sports, chiefly) Someone easy to defeat.
(gymnastics) A backbend combined with a handstand.
A type of railroad passenger car seat, having reversible seat backs that can be moved across the seat to face either direction of travel
An ecological survey carried out by walking across and examining a piece of land.
• (a walkaway)
• (bye or victory due to default of opponent)
• overwalk
Source: Wiktionary
Walk"-o`ver, n.
Definition: In racing, the going over a course by a horse which has no competitor for the prize; hence, colloquially, a one-sided contest; an uncontested, or an easy, victory.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
31 March 2025
(adjective) done or made using whatever is available; “crossed the river on improvised bridges”; “the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear”; “the rock served as a makeshift hammer”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
