walk the gangplank

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walk the gangplank (third-person singular simple present walks the gangplank, present participle walking the gangplank, simple past and past participle walked the gangplank)

  1. Synonym of walk the plank
    • 2001, Richard Haddock, The Ninth Sabbat:
      I couldn't figure out whether Porterfield was being patient, a rare occurrence, or whether he was cleverly setting me up to walk the gangplank of my career.
    • 2009, Jeremy Strong, The Indoor Pirates:
      Then he made Lumpy Lawson the Ship's Cook, Bald Ben his First Mate, and told the twins he would make them walk the gangplank.
    • 2012, Rosalyn Rikel Ramage, The Graveyard, page 88:
      All passengers without permission to sail must walk the gangplank.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see walk,‎ gangplank.
    • 2008, Kaiser Kuo, The Insider's Guide to Beijing 2005-2006:
      We walk the gangplank together, locked arm in arm.