buffet vs walk-in

buffet

noun
  • A small low stool; a hassock. 

  • Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves. 

  • A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind. 

  • The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation of airflow from the aircraft's wings. 

  • A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought. 

verb
  • To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap. 

  • To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper. 

  • To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise. 

  • To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against. 

walk-in

noun
  • A relatively small room (such as a closet or pantry) or refrigerator or freezer that is spacious enough to walk into. 

  • A demonstration or protest in which the participants assemble outside a facility, gain media exposure, and enter the facility in unison. 

  • A customer, job applicant or similar who visits a restaurant, medical facility, car dealership, etc. without a reservation, appointment, or referral. 

  • A relatively larger room or (especially) an apartment that is entered directly, not via an intervening passage or lobby. 

  • A person whose original soul has departed the body and been replaced with another. 

  • A facility or an event that principally handles customers who do not have an appointment. 

  • A defector (or similar) who walks into an embassy (etc) unannounced. 

  • A facility accessed on foot rather than by car, usually contrasted to drive-in. 

adj
  • Accessed by walking, either exclusively, as a campground, or together with drive-in access, as at some drive-in movie theaters. 

  • Gaining access through unlocked doors. 

  • Designed to be possible to walk into (without stepping over a ledge, etc). 

  • That people may enter without a prior appointment. 

  • Spacious enough to walk into. 

How often have the words buffet and walk-in occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )