Meaning

8 senses
  1. (US)An apartment or block with stairs rather than an elevator.

    an apartment building without an elevator

  2. An informal visit to a control tower by a pilot, typically used as part of pilot training.

  3. A mountain that can be climbed without specialist equipment.

  4. A customer who arrives without a reservation; a walk-in.

  5. An indoor or outdoor stand where food is sold to the public.

  6. Colaptes auratus, northern flicker.

  7. A sequence of notes that raises in pitch stepwise, connecting two or more chords.

  8. A place where one can approach by walking, as a walk-in.

    There is a walk-up window at the post office.

Origin

Deverbal from walk up.

Deverbal from walk up.

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Forms

plural: walk-ups

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • an apartment in a building without an elevator:walk-up apartment

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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