walk-up
Americannoun
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an apartment above the ground floor in a building that has no elevator.
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a building, especially an apartment house, that has no elevator.
adjective
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located above the ground floor in a building that has no elevator.
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having no elevator.
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accessible to pedestrians from the outside of a building.
a walk-up teller's window at a bank.
noun
Etymology
Origin of walk-up
1915–20, noun, adj. use of verb phrase walk up
Example Sentences
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She lives with her husband, her mother and her two kids in a second-floor walk-up apartment in Los Angeles.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 16, 2026
Hawaiian Airlines had the highest week-over-week rise for walk-up fares, climbing 13.6%.
From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026
Betts has walked out to a varied playlist, but his selections are included here because he can boast of one walk-up tune unmatched in baseball history.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2025
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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
By then Brian had moved into a walk-up near the Port Authority bus terminal, and using his address, we enrolled Maureen in a good public school in Manhattan.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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