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1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Hookee Walker, an expression signifying that the story is not true, or that the thing will not occur.

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 223 Walker, an ironical expression synonymous with bender and used in the same manner.

1838 C. Dickens in Bentley's Misc. 4 227 Professor Ketch suddenly interrupted the proceedings by exclaiming, with great excitement of manner, ‘Walker!’

1841 C. Mackay Mem. Pop. Delusions I. 328 If a lively servant girl was importuned for a kiss by a fellow she did not care about, she cocked her little nose, and cried ‘Walker!’

1871 C. Hughes Poems, Early & Late 161 Rosanna was..a hawker, Hawked, she said, her little wares, Her goods they were all hooky walker, She went to steal at mops and fairs.

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Oct. 1/1 To which assurance..one may best reply ‘Walker’.

1922 Glasgow Herald 17 Nov. 8 As a catch-phrase, ‘Hookey Walker!’ is long since defunct. It was borrowed from the chorus of a popular ballad, and was used as a derisive answer to any conceivable question.

2001 London Rev. Bks. 22 Feb. 34/2 The short-lived, inscrutable, vaguely insulting expressions heard in the 19th-century streets included ‘Quoz’, ‘Walker!’, ‘What a shocking bad hat!’ and ‘Has your mother sold her mangle?’