walk-up

2 ENTRIES FOUND:

1walk–up

adj \ˈwk-ˌəp\

Definition of WALK-UP

1
: located above the ground floor in a building with no elevator <a walk–up apartment>
2
: consisting of several stories and having no elevator <a walk–up tenement>
3
: designed to allow pedestrians to be served without entering a building <the walk–up window of a bank>

First Known Use of WALK-UP

circa 1919

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