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walk down

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walk-down

[wawk-doun]
–noun
1. a store, living quarters, etc., located below the street level and approached by a flight of steps: It was a dimly lit walk-down optimistically called a garden apartment.
–adjective
2. (of a store, restaurant, apartment, etc.) located below the level of the sidewalk: a popular walk-down nightclub in Greenwich Village.

Origin:
1905–10, Americanism; n., adj. use of v. phrase walk down
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