From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishwalk off phrasal verb1 LEAVE A PLACEto leave someone by walking away from them, especially in a rude or angry way Don’t just walk off when I’m trying to talk to you!2 WALK walk something ↔ off if you walk off an illness or unpleasant feeling, you go for a walk to make it go away Let’s go out – maybe I can walk this headache off.walk off dinner/a meal etc (=go for a walk so that your stomach feels less full)3 walk off (the/your etc job) American English to stop working as a protest Without new contracts, mine workers will walk off their jobs Thursday. → walk→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
walk off (the/your etc job)• The sergeant was tempted to walk off but did not.• He walked off disconsolate: he knew he had played well enough to win and had not.• Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row.• We had quite literally walked off the map.• A reporter for the Wheeling Intelligencer had just walked off the structure when the catastrophe occurred.• When he walked off towards the car park Henry didn't bother following.• Stewart walked off with the look of one who was the sole survivor of a particularly nasty plane crash.• It makes the software easier to display and harder to walk off with. 