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ˈwalk-up, a. and n.
[f. vbl. phr. to walk up: walk v.1]
A. adj.
1. Of an apartment, etc.: that has to be reached by stairs rather than by a lift. Also applied to a building consisting of such apartments. U.S.
1919Mencken Amr. Lang. iv. 110 The term flat ‘is usually in the United States restricted to apartments in houses having no elevator or hall service’. In New York such apartments are commonly called walk-up apartments. 1927E. Glyn It iv. 40 Mary had a tiny two⁓room apartment in a walk-up building in Brooklyn. 1942N.Y. Times 13 Feb. (late City ed.) 13/4 Six five-story walk-up apartment houses. 1946Mezzrow & Wolfe Really Blues (1957) xiii. 235 Some crummy walk-up tenement flat. 1979H. Kissinger White House Years xxi. 906 Huang Hua and I met around six o'clock in the CIA's walk-up apartment in the East Seventies. 1984Business Rev. Weekly (Austral.) 4–10 Feb. 42/3 The Myer development is a three-storey walk-up affair that has appealed to a lower age group than usual for Gold Coast units.
2. That may be approached on the street, without having to go into a building.
1963C. J. McCall in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 421 The colorful window-signs of innumerable ‘readers’..cry out from their store-front or walk-up locations. 1972Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 8 Oct. 16/1 The same bandit had approached Miss Avery at her outside walkup window post on Tuesday and demanded $3000.
B. n.
1. A walk-up apartment or apartment block. U.S.
1925Scribner's Mag. Oct. 6/2 Vacation heaves into sight over the horizon..the swirling dust turned into clean sand; the only walk-up a dune; and the total night life two movie theatres. 1942R. Chandler High Window xxv. 149 The kind of dentists who have shabby offices on second-floor walk-ups over stores. 1954F. P. Keyes Royal Box xiii. 165 The friends he had all lived in the identical kind of six-flat walk-up. 1966R. Stout Death of Doxy (1967) i. 6 The person to ask lived on the second floor of a walkup on 52nd Street. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 4 Sept. 1/2 The blue-jeaned couples climbing the stairs to their walk-ups together are most usually the children of affluence. 1980J. Krantz Princess Daisy xxv. 438 Daisy herself lived in a low-rent SoHo walk-up and held down a full-time job.
2. U.S. Horse-racing. The walk of racehorses to a starting line or tape (as opposed to starting gates). Freq. attrib.
1938Sun (Baltimore) 1 Nov. 12/1 The only change in the usual order will be a walkup start instead of a start from a gate. 1946Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 8 Mar. 23/3 The field might have to be started from a walkup to an old-fashioned web barrier. 1959Washington Post 15 Nov. c 1 The starter who had trouble..at Laurel in the ragged walk-up, says the foreign entries could be taught in five days to break from the stall gates. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia VIII. 1100/2 Some starts are still effected from a barrier that springs upward when actuated by the starter, or in the ‘walk-up’ fashion, whereby the starter gives a verbal order when the horses are reasonably well aligned.
3. Shooting. The act of walking up gamebirds (walk v.1 21); also transf. of clay pigeons; a piece of land kept for this purpose.
1972Shooting Times & Country Mag. 27 May 10/3 There are numerous Bowman traps, designed to simulate varying driven game birds and there is a walk-up with 15 traps. 1975Times 1 Sept. 14/6 An increasing number of landowners..let walked-up shoots... On the Speyside walk-up the other day was a Marseille dentist. |