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Street(money)
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street value(dictionary)
Bow Street(dictionary)
off-street(dictionary)
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street(1) (iou)



street noun. [stri:t]

a. A paved road, a highway. Now only in proper names of certain ancient (chiefly Roman) roads. OE.
b. loosely. A road, a way, a path. OE-M16.
A public road in a city, town, or village usu. running between two lines of houses or other buildings; such a road along with the pavements and buildings on either side. Freq. (with cap. initial) in proper names (abbreviation St.). OE.
Bow Street, Carnaby Street, Downing Street, high street, main street, etc.
L. Hellman He..had bought a street of slum houses. H. David The..Tavern..stands on the corner of Charlotte Street and Windmill Street. Sunday Express A narrow cobbled street lined with..souvenir shops.
b. The people who live or work in, or regularly use, a particular street. LME.
Chambers's Journal A mystery..which the whole street had tried..fathoming.
c. transf. A passage between continuous lines of people or things. LME.
a. Physics. More fully vortex street. An arrangement of vortices in two parallel lines with clockwise rotation in one and anticlockwise rotation in the other. E20.
b. Meteorology. = cloud street s.v. CLOUD noun. M20.
Phrases: by a street by a wide margin. cloud street: see CLOUD noun. down one's street colloq. suited to one's taste or ability, right down one's street, completely so. Easy Street: see EASY adjective. in the street(s) out of doors, esp. in a town or city; in the public area outside the buildings in a street. mean streets: see MEAN adjective1. not in the same street as, not in the same street with far behind in a race etc., far inferior to. not the length of a street no great interval. on the street (a) N. Amer. slang outside prison, at liberty; (b) slang (of drug acquisition) by illicit dealing; (c) out of work, unemployed; (d) = in the street(s) above. on the streets (a) homeless; (b) living by prostitution; (c) = in the street(s) above. play both sides of the street (chiefly US) ally oneself with both sides, behave inconsistently and opportunistically. Queer Street: see QUEER adjective & noun. right down one's street: see down one's street above. Short Street: see SHORT adjective. streets ahead (of), streets better (than) far ahead (of) in a race etc., far superior (to). take to the streets gather outdoors in a town in order to protest etc. the man in the street, the man on the street: see MAN noun. the street (a) a particular street in which financial or other business is conducted or based; this business; those who conduct it; spec. (the Street) = WALL STREET, = Fleet Street s.v. FLEET noun2; (b) the money market after the Stock Exchange closes; (c) the realm of ordinary people, esp. as a source of popular political support or of fashionable urban subculture; (d) US slang the world outside prison or other confinement, freedom. two-way street: see TWO-WAY adjective 4b. up one's street colloq. = down one's street above. up street: see UP preposition2. vortex street: see sense 3a above. walk the streets: see WALK verb1. woman of the streets: see WOMAN noun.
Comb.: street arab: see ARAB noun 3; street boy a homeless boy who lives chiefly in the streets; streetcar (a) N. Amer. a tramcar; (b) Military slang a shell; street chemist US colloq. a person who makes and deals in esp. illegal drugs; street child a homeless child who lives chiefly in the streets; street cred noun & adjective (slang) [abbreviation] (a) noun = street credibility below; (b) adjective = street credible below; street credibility slang popularity with or acceptability to people involved in fashionable street culture; (apparent) familiarity with current fashions, social issues, etc.; street credible adjective (slang) possessing street credibility; street cries the cries of hawkers in the street; street culture the outlook, values, lifestyle, etc., of (esp. young) people living in an urban environment, regarded as a fashionable subculture; street dog an ownerless dog living in the streets; street door the main outer door of a house or other building which opens on to the street; street drug an illegal drug sold on the streets; street fight an instance of street fighting; street fighting: conducted in the streets, esp. on a large scale for political or revolutionary ends; street floor US = ground floor s.v. GROUND noun; street furniture postboxes, road signs, litter bins, and other objects placed in the street for public use; street girl (a) a homeless girl who lives chiefly in the streets; (b) a prostitute; street-grid an arrangement of streets crossing at right angles to each other; street hockey N. Amer. a variety of hockey played on the street; street jewellery painted enamel advertising plates regarded as collectors' items; street-keeper a parish or district official appointed to keep order in the streets; street kid colloq. = street child above; street lamp a lamp or light, esp. on a lamppost, that illuminates a road etc.; a lamppost supporting such a lamp. street-legal adjective (of a vehicle) legally roadworthy; street level (a) ground-floor level; (b) fig. the level of direct contact with the public, grass roots level; the level of operating esp. illegally on the streets; street-light (a) a window opening on the street; (b) a street lamp; streetman US slang a petty criminal who operates on the streets esp. as a pickpocket or drug peddler; street name US the name of a stock-broking firm, bank, or dealer in which stock is held on behalf of a purchaser; street-orderly (now rare) a person who sweeps the streets; a scavenger; street people (chiefly N. Amer.) (a) homeless people who live on the streets; (b) people involved in petty urban crime, esp. illicit drug dealers; street person N. Amer. a vagrant who lives on the streets; street-porter Hist. a porter who lifts or carries heavy packages in the street; street price (a) a price obtained or quoted in dealings after the Stock Exchange closes; (b) the selling price of an illegal drug; streetproof verb trans. (N. Amer.) train (children) to be wary of dangers outside the home or school, esp. from drug dealers, child molesters, etc.; street-raking adjective (Scot.) roaming the streets; street rod a hot rod suitable for use in the streets; streetscape a view or prospect provided by the design of a city street or streets; street-smart adjective (N. Amer. slang) = streetwise (b) below; street smarts N. Amer. slang shrewd awareness of how to survive in an urban society or environment; common sense; street style (a) style or fashion inspired by fashionable street culture; street-sweeper a person who or machine which sweeps the streets; street-to-street adjective (of fighting) taking place in the streets; street tree a tree planted at the edge of a street; street urchin a mischievous little street boy; street value the estimated selling price of an illegal drug; street village a long narrow village formed of buildings along either side of a main street; streetwalker a person who walks in the street, spec. a prostitute who solicits in the street; street warden (a) an air-raid warden assigned to a particular street or streets; (b) a warden appointed to watch for certain social problems in a particular street or streets; streetway (now only poet.) a paved road or highway, the part of a street meant for vehicles; streetwise adjective (slang, orig. N. Amer.) (a) familiar with fashionable street culture; (b) cunning in the ways of modern urban life; street worker (orig. N. Amer.) a social worker who works with juvenile delinquents.
streetful noun as much or as many as a street will hold M19.
streetlet noun a small street M16.
streetward adverb & adjective (a) adverb towards the street; (b) adjective facing or opening on to the street: L16.
streety adjective (rare) of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the streets M19.