walk-upadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈwɔːkʌp/, U.S.

/ˈwɔkˌəp/,

/ˈwɑkˌəp/

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly formed within English, by conversion. Partly formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: English to walk up , to walk up at walk v. Phrasal verbs 1, walk v. 19, up adv.¹

Etymology: In senses A. 1 and B. 3 < to walk up at walk v. 19. In senses A. 2 and B. 2 < to walk up at walk v. Phrasal verbs 1. In senses A. 3, A. 4, and B. 1 < walk v. + up adv.¹

A. adj. (attributive).

1. Shooting. Designating a contest in which game birds or clay pigeons are walked up (walk v. 19).

ΚΠ

1902 Titusville (Pa.) Morning Herald 22 Sept. 3/3 His work was very good and his shooting in the walk-up contest was excellent.

1996 Scotsman (Nexis) 13 Apr. 26 Now more people are looking for a lower-cost walk-up shoot and are less concerned by the size of the bag.

2000 T. F. Pawlick Baringo Kid ii. x. 112 The last Saturday of the month..we were out again, and this time were in time for both the trap shooting and a ‘birdie walkup’ competition.

2. U.S. Horse Racing. Designating a start of a race in which the horses are led to a starting line or tape (as opposed to a start from an automated gate).

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [adjective] > action of horse

walk-up1904

1904 Los Angeles Times 22 May iii. 3/5 In the walk-up start..the fast breakers had a tremendous pull over the others.

1938 Sun (Baltimore) 1 Nov. 12/1 The only change in the usual order will be a walkup start instead of a start from a gate.

1974 Encycl. 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.

2007 Sunday Times (Perth, Austral.) (Nexis) 6 May 99 The race we've got picked out in Stockholm is a 3200m walk-up start race worth about $200,000.

3. Originally and chiefly U.S. Of an apartment, office, etc.: that has to be reached by stairs rather than by a lift. Also of a building: consisting of such apartments.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [adjective] > block of flats or apartments > flat or apartment > type of

walk-up1906

mother-in-law1979

1906 N.Y. Times 16 Dec. v. 17/3 Whatever oversupply of houseings there may be north of 135th Street is very largely in the cheaper ‘walk-up’ flats, whereas tenants have been found readily..for accommodations of the better sort.

1927 E. Glyn ‘It’ iv. 40 Mary had a tiny two~room apartment in a walk-up building in Brooklyn.

1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues xiii. 235 Some crummy walk-up tenement flat.

1984 Business 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.

2004 Time Out 25 Aug. 74/3 Helen..is a sunny rep at a Manhattan modelling agency, with a cute walk-up apartment.

4. Of a shop, bank, etc., or its service counter: that enables customers to carry out transactions from the outside, without needing to enter the building.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > types of building generally > [adjective] > other specific

standing1624

walk-up1928

LU1969

unlisted1970

mature1975

smart1984

1928 Modesto (Calif.) News–Herald 15 Jan. 20/8 Broadway has many walk-up places which remain open until midnight—selling $5 hats, $1 stockings, $10 dresses and the like.

1950 Washington Post 12 May 19/1 Inside-out banking has been launched by the National Capital Bank…Pedestrian customers have a separate walk-up window on the side.

1963 C. 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.

1972 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 8 Oct. 16/1 The same bandit had approached Miss Avery at her outside walkup window post on Tuesday and demanded $3000.

1980 Rep. Lloyds Bank Ltd. 1979 11 Walk-up window tills offer extended banking hours to customers.

2002 Bon Appétit Sept. 146/4 Customers retrieve their orders from the walk-up window and then dig in while standing in the parking lot.

B. n.

1. Originally and chiefly U.S. An apartment building that has no lift; an apartment not at ground level that has to be reached by stairs.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > flat or apartment > type of

studio flat1882

studio apartment1884

mansard1886

penthouse1892

single end1897

walk-up1907

railroad flat1908

simplex1912

service flat1913

studio1918

kitchenette1920

duplex1922

garden flat1922

flatlet1925

show flat1929

quadruplex1939

council flat1941

garden apartment1942

walk-back1945

multilevel1959

tower apartment1961

condominium1962

triplex1962

condo1984

1907 N.Y. Times 15 Sept. 12/2 The widest range of accommodations has been provided, from the six-story ‘walk-up’ with four families on a floor to the elevator apartment house.

1942 R. Chandler High Window xxv. 149 The kind of dentists who have shabby offices on second-floor walk-ups over stores.

1966 R. Stout Death of Doxy (1967) i. 6 The person to ask lived on the second floor of a walkup on 52nd Street.

1976 National 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.

1980 J. Krantz Princess Daisy xxv. 438 Daisy herself lived in a low-rent SoHo walk-up and held down a full-time job.

2006 A. Beattie in Granta Summer 191 She lived in a second-floor walk-up in Chelsea and had a dog named Busy Man.

2. U.S. Horse Racing. A walk-up start (see sense A. 2).

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > actions of horse

screwing1609

go-by1615

stride1883

flying change1946

walk-up1946

1946 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 8 Mar. 23/3 The field might have to be started from a walkup to an old-fashioned web barrier.

1959 Washington 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.

3. Shooting. A piece of land kept for the purpose of walking up game birds or clay pigeons (walk v. 19).

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > [noun] > causing bird to rise

springing1616

walking up1893

walk-up1972

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > trap-shooting > [noun] > place

walk-up1972

1972 Shooting 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.

1975 Times 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.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	walk-up
释义	walk-upadj.n. Brit. /ˈwɔːkʌp/, U.S. /ˈwɔkˌəp/, /ˈwɑkˌəp/ Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly formed within English, by conversion. Partly formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: English to walk up , to walk up at walk v. Phrasal verbs 1, walk v. 19, up adv.¹ Etymology: In senses A. 1 and B. 3 < to walk up at walk v. 19. In senses A. 2 and B. 2 < to walk up at walk v. Phrasal verbs 1. In senses A. 3, A. 4, and B. 1 < walk v. + up adv.¹ A. adj. (attributive). 1. Shooting. Designating a contest in which game birds or clay pigeons are walked up (walk v. 19). ΚΠ 1902 Titusville (Pa.) Morning Herald 22 Sept. 3/3 His work was very good and his shooting in the walk-up contest was excellent. 1996 Scotsman (Nexis) 13 Apr. 26 Now more people are looking for a lower-cost walk-up shoot and are less concerned by the size of the bag. 2000 T. F. Pawlick Baringo Kid ii. x. 112 The last Saturday of the month..we were out again, and this time were in time for both the trap shooting and a ‘birdie walkup’ competition. 2. U.S. Horse Racing. Designating a start of a race in which the horses are led to a starting line or tape (as opposed to a start from an automated gate). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [adjective] > action of horse walk-up1904 1904 Los Angeles Times 22 May iii. 3/5 In the walk-up start..the fast breakers had a tremendous pull over the others. 1938 Sun (Baltimore) 1 Nov. 12/1 The only change in the usual order will be a walkup start instead of a start from a gate. 1974 Encycl. 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. 2007 Sunday Times (Perth, Austral.) (Nexis) 6 May 99 The race we've got picked out in Stockholm is a 3200m walk-up start race worth about $200,000. 3. Originally and chiefly U.S. Of an apartment, office, etc.: that has to be reached by stairs rather than by a lift. Also of a building: consisting of such apartments. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [adjective] > block of flats or apartments > flat or apartment > type of walk-up1906 mother-in-law1979 1906 N.Y. Times 16 Dec. v. 17/3 Whatever oversupply of houseings there may be north of 135th Street is very largely in the cheaper ‘walk-up’ flats, whereas tenants have been found readily..for accommodations of the better sort. 1927 E. Glyn ‘It’ iv. 40 Mary had a tiny two~room apartment in a walk-up building in Brooklyn. 1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues xiii. 235 Some crummy walk-up tenement flat. 1984 Business 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. 2004 Time Out 25 Aug. 74/3 Helen..is a sunny rep at a Manhattan modelling agency, with a cute walk-up apartment. 4. Of a shop, bank, etc., or its service counter: that enables customers to carry out transactions from the outside, without needing to enter the building. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > types of building generally > [adjective] > other specific standing1624 walk-up1928 LU1969 unlisted1970 mature1975 smart1984 1928 Modesto (Calif.) News–Herald 15 Jan. 20/8 Broadway has many walk-up places which remain open until midnight—selling $5 hats, $1 stockings, $10 dresses and the like. 1950 Washington Post 12 May 19/1 Inside-out banking has been launched by the National Capital Bank…Pedestrian customers have a separate walk-up window on the side. 1963 C. 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. 1972 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 8 Oct. 16/1 The same bandit had approached Miss Avery at her outside walkup window post on Tuesday and demanded $3000. 1980 Rep. Lloyds Bank Ltd. 1979 11 Walk-up window tills offer extended banking hours to customers. 2002 Bon Appétit Sept. 146/4 Customers retrieve their orders from the walk-up window and then dig in while standing in the parking lot. B. n. 1. Originally and chiefly U.S. An apartment building that has no lift; an apartment not at ground level that has to be reached by stairs. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > flat or apartment > type of studio flat1882 studio apartment1884 mansard1886 penthouse1892 single end1897 walk-up1907 railroad flat1908 simplex1912 service flat1913 studio1918 kitchenette1920 duplex1922 garden flat1922 flatlet1925 show flat1929 quadruplex1939 council flat1941 garden apartment1942 walk-back1945 multilevel1959 tower apartment1961 condominium1962 triplex1962 condo1984 1907 N.Y. Times 15 Sept. 12/2 The widest range of accommodations has been provided, from the six-story ‘walk-up’ with four families on a floor to the elevator apartment house. 1942 R. Chandler High Window xxv. 149 The kind of dentists who have shabby offices on second-floor walk-ups over stores. 1966 R. Stout Death of Doxy (1967) i. 6 The person to ask lived on the second floor of a walkup on 52nd Street. 1976 National 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. 1980 J. Krantz Princess Daisy xxv. 438 Daisy herself lived in a low-rent SoHo walk-up and held down a full-time job. 2006 A. Beattie in Granta Summer 191 She lived in a second-floor walk-up in Chelsea and had a dog named Busy Man. 2. U.S. Horse Racing. A walk-up start (see sense A. 2). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > actions of horse screwing1609 go-by1615 stride1883 flying change1946 walk-up1946 1946 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 8 Mar. 23/3 The field might have to be started from a walkup to an old-fashioned web barrier. 1959 Washington 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. 3. Shooting. A piece of land kept for the purpose of walking up game birds or clay pigeons (walk v. 19). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > [noun] > causing bird to rise springing1616 walking up1893 walk-up1972 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > trap-shooting > [noun] > place walk-up1972 1972 Shooting 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. 1975 Times 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. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1902
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