walk down

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walk-down  (wôk′doun′), n. 

1. a store, living quarters, etc., located below the street level and approached by a flight of steps:
   It was a dimly lit walk-down optimistically called a garden apartment.

adj. 

2. (of a store, restaurant, apartment, etc.) located below the level of the sidewalk:
   a popular walk-down nightclub in Greenwich Village.

• noun, nominal, adjective, adjectival use of verb, verbal phrase walk down 1905–10, American.