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
- Instead I had a dodgy job for a dodgier boss, working out of a four floor walk-up above a bridal wholesalers in Soho.
- 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
- I could slap her slum landlord with a fine, a whipping or a public egging for failing to fix the elevator to her third floor walk-up.
- I jumped into the cab with Maggie and rode with her into Roxbury where she lived in a brownstone walk-up, not far from Dudley Station. ICED
- Hunched within its floodlit new-build, English cricket is now surfing the finest margins, dependent on the grande bouffe of the Saturday spree merchant, and not so much in bed with the purveyors of walk-up hospitality as sweatily intertwined on the main stairs. Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay
- On April 13, 1964(Sentence dictionary), nearly an adolescent and watching television from the linoleum floor of her mother's walk-up flat in something deep inside of her.
- 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
- Living in Chicago, her apartment was a second story walk-up.
- I live in a fourth-floor walk-up in Brooklyn; I do not need a whole lot of gardening hints.
- I jumped into the cab with Maggie and rode with her into Roxbury where she lived in a brownstone walk-up, not far from Dudley Station. ICED