walk-up

American  

[wawk-uhp] / ˈwɔkˌʌp /

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.

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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 British  

noun

1. informal

   1. a block of flats having no lift

   2. ( as modifier )

      a walk-up block

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Etymology

Origin of walk-up

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

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

walk-up

As the robots arrived, I became concerned that just reaching the front door of my third-floor walk-up would be an issue.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

The company’s drive-through locations have walk-up windows for mobile-order pickups and no cafe space for lingering inside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

We live on the fourth floor of a walk-up that is typically devoid of insects.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

The theater’s walk-up food window is serving pizza-inspired baked potatoes, a colored chocolate pretzel meant to mimic an asparagus pretzel wand, and more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2026

She, Nicholas, and her four other children were living in a second-floor walk-up in Englewood, a crime-burdened neighborhood abandoned first by the white middle class and then by the black middle class that succeeded it.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

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