walk-up
[wawk-uhp]
noun
an apartment above the ground floor in a building that has no elevator.
a building, especially an apartment house, that has no elevator.
adjective
located above the ground floor in a building that has no elevator.
having no elevator.
accessible to pedestrians from the outside of a building: a walk-up teller's window at a bank.
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Origin of walk-up
1915–20, Americanism; noun, adj. use of verb phrase walk up
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Historical Examples of walk-up
The house in which Cassy lived was what is agreeably known as a walk-up.
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Paliser got out, preceded Cassy to the steps of the walk-up and smiled in her face.
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It had been arranged that the fallen star was to come to the walk-up and accompany Cassy to the Splendor.
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In the sphere of life to which a walk-up leads, the charts were dotted with but the postman and the corner druggist.
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The idea that it would lift him out of the walk-up, out of Harlem and cold veal, was the one excuse for her voyage to Cytherea.
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walk-up
noun
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