walk-up
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walk-up
- /ˈwɔkʌp/
Where it comes from
Deverbal from walk up.
(northern flicker): Imitative of the bird's call.
adjective walkup
- Reached by stairs rather than an elevator.
- Containing such flats.
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For which no appointment is necessary.
Similar: walk-in
noun walk-ups · walkup
- An apartment or block with stairs rather than an elevator. I became the tenant of a walk-up on East Tenth Street, on the north side of Tompkins Square, found for me by the seemingly omni-connected Ian McEwan […]
- An informal visit to a control tower by a pilot, typically used as part of pilot training. Pilot walk-ups welcomed for real-time satellite and radar weather imaging information.
- A mountain that can be climbed without specialist equipment. Western mountains are easy walk-ups. Eastern mountains are hard crawl-ups, but no oxygen problems.
- A customer who arrives without a reservation; a walk-in. The first hour is for walk-ups only, with one foursome per hour reserved for walk-ups as well.
- An indoor or outdoor stand where food is sold to the public. Soba is […] making appearances everywhere from street food walk-ups to fine dining restaurants.
- Colaptes auratus, northern flicker.
- A sequence of notes that raises in pitch stepwise, connecting two or more chords.
- A place where one can approach by walking, as a walk-in. There is a walk-up window at the post office.
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