walkover
/
ˈwɔːkˌəʊvə
/
noun
1.
(
informal
) an easy or unopposed victory
2.
(
horse racing
)
the running or walking over the course by the only contestant entered in a race at the time of starting
a race won in this way
verb
(
intransitive, mainly preposition
)
3.
(
also adverb
) to win a race by a walkover
4.
(
informal
) to beat (an opponent) conclusively or easily
5.
(
informal
) to take advantage of (someone)
Idioms and Phrases with
walk over
walk over
.
See
walk all over
.
Defeat easily, as in
We walked over them in that practice game but don't know how we'll do in the real thing
.
[
Second half of 1900s
]