walk off

1. 1.

   take without permission

   “he walked off with my wife!”

   “The thief walked off with my gold watch”

   Broadersteal
2. 2.

   go away from

   “The actor walked off before he got his cue”

   “I got annoyed and just walked off”

   Synonymswalk away

   Broaderleave

Questions about walk off

What does walk off mean?

walk off means "take without permission". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for walk off?

Close synonyms include walk away. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is walk off a common word?

walk off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.