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

Example Sentences

Now I am closer to central Lisbon in a comfortable one-bedroom second-floor walk-up in a neighborhood with a lot of stores and restaurants.

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One of Katz’s main tasks is getting more skiers to choose Vail’s slopes, and he says that in pushing people to buy passes ahead of the season, Vail neglected its walk-up ticket strategy.

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Because Johnny’s has a walk-up service counter, its easy for your guests to come and go as they please.

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She meets and marries fellow student Jen Chao-Pe, and together they move into a dilapidated walk-up in Washington Heights, where Agnes learns to scrimp and save and paint her own walls.

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There will, however, be walk-up tickets sold each day of the show.

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Related Words

• co-op 
• condo 
• condominium 
• cooperative 
• flat 
• suite