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walk-up

  [wawk-uhp]
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–noun
1. an apartment above the ground floor in a building that has no elevator.
2. a building, esp. an apartment house, that has no elevator.
–adjective
3. located above the ground floor in a building that has no elevator.
4. having no elevator.
5. accessible to pedestrians from the outside of a building: a walk-up teller's window at a bank.
Origin:
1915–20, Americanism; n., adj. use of v. phrase walk up
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walk·up also walk-up   (wôk'ŭp')   
n.  

  1. An apartment house or office building with no elevator.

  2. An apartment or office in a building with no elevator.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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