walk-up

[wawk-uhp]

noun

1. an apartment above the ground floor in a building that has no elevator.

2. a building, especially an apartment house, that has no elevator.

adjective

1. located above the ground floor in a building that has no elevator.

2. having no elevator.

3. accessible to pedestrians from the outside of a building.

   a walk-up teller's window at a bank.

walk-up

noun

1. informal

   1. a block of flats having no lift

   2. ( as modifier )

      a walk-up block

Word History and Origins

Origin of walk-up¹

1915–20, noun, adj. use of verb phrase walk up

Related Words

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