NOUN
- an apartment building without an elevator
- an apartment in a building without an elevator
ADJECTIVE
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a building with no elevator
a walk-up apartment
How To Use walk-up In A Sentence
- His studio was like a creepy one-room place that was a walk-up on top of a deli, so it smelled real weird.
- She wondered how long it had been since Andrew McClintock had toiled his way to the top-floor of a ` walk-up ". THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
- Immigrants felt they had truly made it in the New World when they traded in their four-storey walk-up for a four-car garage.
- Kokhi's parents' place is a tiny top-floor walk-up in one of the slummy blocks that line Hebron Road on its way out of town.
- He carted them all back to his rent-stabilized walk-up on the Upper East Side.
- ‘It was her example and selfless service, raising four boys in a fourth floor walk-up that made the difference’.
- Miles away in the third-floor walk-up loft on West 20th Street a telephone rang, and rang; and at last the receiver was lifted. MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
- I'm also on the fourth floor of a walk-up, so racing up and down is not an option.
- Glouberman lives in a walk-up next door to The Beaconsfield; his roof-top patio overlooks the site where the bar wants to build theirs.
- The Reuben Gallery, by contrast, was a third-floor walk-up in a small, aging building.