An employee who is certain to be fired in the near future.
I pay no attention to my boss anymore; he's a dead man walking.
by hot-sauce October 27, 2006
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An exclamation warning people in prison that an inmate who is on death row is walking by and caution should be taken since they wouldn't hesitate to kill someone, seeing as they are already dead.
Guard: Dead man walking!
Inmate: AHH! Where is my teddy?!?!!1!
by Ryan Timothy January 28, 2009
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An employee who is certain to be fired in the near future.
I pay no attention to my boss anymore; he's a dead man walking.
by hot-sauce October 27, 2006
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A person who's in the military and will die in combat sooner or later.
I'm just a Dead man walking.
by Cloud FF7 December 16, 2016
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An employee who has given two weeks notice and is liable to cause all sorts of trouble for the business.
"Johnny is supposed to work tonight but he's a dead man walking so who knows. If he does show watch him like a hawk, and make sure he's not poaching our staff.
by Andytait88 February 17, 2017
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US: A death row prisoner on his terminal walk to eternity inherites the unenviable title of 'dead man walking'.
As the prisoner set of for his last walk to the gas chamber the other con's slowly shook there heads from side to side and muttered 'dead man walking'.
by Blue Cawdrey November 21, 2004
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In poker - when a player is drawing dead and has no chance of winning the hand.
Even though Rex had quad Aces on the turn, Randy had drawn a Royal Flush, so Rex was a dead man walking.
by Catch63 November 22, 2006
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