[
US
/ˈwɔˌkɑn/
]
ADJECTIVE
-
not capable of or especially not involving speech or spoken lines
had a nonspeaking role in the play
NOUN
- plays a small part in a dramatic production
How To Use walk-on In A Sentence
- In 1994, she was a walk-on at the Newport Beach outrigger canoe club; in 2000 she and her eight crewmates won the sport's national championships.
- During the day I do walk-on work in programmes with murder in the title.
- In an odd bit of casting, Kris Kristofferson has a walk-on as Karubi, Daena's father, who comes to a somewhat gruesome end.
- A big-boned, sharp-tongued farm girl, Josie is the beating heart of this play and the kind of role actors dream of through years of movie walk-ons and commercials.
- Lucky for him, his third defensive end was a walk-on who had some experience.
- He went to Arizona State on an academic scholarship and made the team as a walk-on.
- The story of Helen prompted a similar style treatment in a Robert Wise production, in which the young Brigitte Bardot had a walk-on part.
- Incidentally, director Kamal's film also has Mahima Chaudhary in yet another walk-on role.
- Entertaining cameos by the likes of Donald Trump to David Bowie add some more spice but when spotting celebrity walk-ons is the most entertaining thing about a film that's a problem.
- The film explores the notion that we are all playing walk-on roles through other people's lives.
