Green’s Dictionary of Slang

my name is Walker phr.

I’m leaving, I’m off.

1858		A. Mayhew Paved with Gold 293: Come on, before that infernal dog sees us [...] Our name must be Walker, and no catchee no havee the word.
1859		‘Scene in a London Flash-Panny’ Matsell Vocabulum 102: Your client has slipped the darbys, and his name’s Walker. Here’s a flimsy, to lay low and bottle your gab.
1864		Doreset Co. Chron. 23 June 11/1: A lady is reported to have vulgarly said the other day in a divorce case, a man’s wife could say upon every provocation ‘My name is Walker!’.
1874		‘Old Calabar’ Won in a Canter I 213: ‘Oh Lord, Bill, what a h— of a row ther’ll be when he comes to his colour again; but our name will be Walker long afore that.
1880		Huddersfield Chron. 24 Aug. 3/6: Defendant said to his aunt, ‘I am off; my name is Walker’.
1887		Shields Dly Gaz. 24 Dec. 6/5: Yer can’t fool dis kid. Ten or my name’s Walker.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 92: Walker, a person who states that if such conditions are not complied with,‘my name is Walker’.
1898		Taunton Courier (Somerset) 10 Aug. 7/7: If that’s the game, work till the end of the month I will, but after that, pleasing you mum, my name’s Walker.
1905		‘The Swagman’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 96: But at breakfast I cuts off enough / For dinner, don’t you see, / And then my name is Walker. Oh! don’t you pity me.
1908		D. Stewart Wild Tribes of London in Illus. Police News 29 Feb. 12/1: ‘Pay me anoder time. Which ’is name is Walker’.
1910		Eve. Teleg. (Dundee) 18 Oct. 2/5: I cannot bear the idea of paying 1s. extra for my supper [...] My name is Walker.