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walkalong en · NOUN

Etymology

From walk + along.

Meanings

1. A type of interview in which the interviewer and subject walk together while talking.
   • This chapter draws on our ethnographic analysis of the diaries, walkalongs and followup conversations with Janet, who had recently resigned from a managerial position to look after her first child. 2016, Garth Lean, Emma Watson, “Travel and Imagination: An Invitation”, in Garth Lean, Russell Staff, editors, Travel and Imagination, →ISBN:
   • The method of walkalongs, first described by Margarethe Kusenbach (2003), combines interview and observation. 2014, Garth Lean, Russell Staff, editors, Stories of Cosmopolitan Belonging: Emotion and Location, →ISBN:
2. A police detail or other group that walks with someone.
   • In the period before, when Martin Luther King was here walking through the different neighborhoods, I was in the walkalongs, the police protection, on the north side and on the south side. 1988 August 26, Steve Bogira, Hank De Zutter, Ron Dorfman, Robert McClory, David Moberg, Grant Pick, Gary Rivlin, “They Were There”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2015:
3. A small forklift used for pallets.
   • All fork lift trucks, platform trucks, walkalongs, cranes, and four-wheeled trucks should be checked for capacities. 1961, Modern Castings, volume 40, page 44:
4. A dandy-horse, a 19th-century precursor of the bicycle.
   • They were called walkalongs, dandy horses, hobby-horses, or Draisines. 1972, George S. Fichter, Bicycling, →ISBN, page 17:

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