WALKOVER

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


Etymology

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• (a walkaway)

• (bye or victory due to default of opponent)

Anagrams

• 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



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