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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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of walk-up1

1915–20, Americanism; noun, adj. use of verb phrase walk up
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The singing, bouncing fans here were already fired up when the Temptations sang the national anthem before following up with “My Girl†in honor of Francisco Lindor’s walk-up song.

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There were “many more walk-up patients with minor injuries,†according to the Facebook post.

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The Memphis, Tenn.-based chain knew from pre-sale numbers that “Inside Out 2†would be big but had no idea that walk-up ticket sales would also be as in demand, he said.

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This android — one of two nameless leads in the Oscar-nominated charmer “Robot Dreams†— envisions a small, lonely dog in his third-floor walk-up, microwaving a depressing dinner for one.

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Those businesses are now looking to AI to run drive-through orders or walk-up self-service kiosks to reduce the financial effect of California’s new $20 minimum wage for restaurant workers in certain establishments.

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