street
see also: Street
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /stɹiːt/,
  • (Philadelphia) IPA: /ʃtɹiːt/
  • (African-American Vernacular English) IPA: [skɹitˤ], [ʃkɹitˤ]
Noun

street (plural streets)

  1. A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
    Walk down the street until you see a hotel on the right.
  2. A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
    I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.
  3. The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
  4. The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities.
  5. An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.
    I got some pot cheap on the street.
  6. (slang) Streetwise slang.
    • 2008, Andrew Fleming and Pam Brady, Hamlet 2, Focus Features
      Toaster is street for guns.
  7. (figuratively) A great distance.
    He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.
    • 2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France
      England were once again static in their few attacks, only Tuilagi's bullocking runs offering any threat, Flood reduced to aiming a long-range drop-goal pit which missed by a street.
  8. (poker slang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
  9. (attributive) Living in the streets.
    a street cat; a street urchin
  10. (urban toponymy) By restriction, the streets that run perpendicular to avenues.
Translations Adjective

street

  1. (slang) Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.
    • 2003, Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill, James P. Baen, Mad Maudlin
      Eric had to admit that she looked street—upscale street, but still street. Kayla's look tended to change with the seasons; at the moment it was less Goth than paramilitary, with laced jump boots.
Verb

street (streets, present participle streeting; past and past participle streeted)

  1. To build#Verb|build or equip with streets.
    • 1619 July 4, James Howell, “XII. To Sir James Crofts. Antwerp.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], volume I, 3rd edition, London: Printed for Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], published 1655, OCLC 84295516 ↗, section I, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049862587;view=1up;seq=39 page 17]:
      There are few places on this ſide the Alps better built, and ſo well Streeted as this, and none at all ſo well girt with Baſtions and Ramparts, which in ſome places are ſo ſpacious, that they uſually take the Air in Coaches upon the very Walls, which are beautified with divers rows of Trees and pleaſant Walks.
    • 1999, Ralph C. Hancock, America, the West, and Liberal Education, Rowman & Littlefield ISBN 9780847692316, page 89
      After all, Thomas, in whose thinking Aristotle and Christ combine as never before or since, was censured by the Church, fortunately in absentia, after he had been " absented" from this little threshing floor, streeted with straw, our earth, and was, presumably, dwelling in beatific felicity, in any case, safe from Bishop Tempier.
    • 2011, Robert White, Romantic Getaways in San Francisco & the Bay Area, Hunter Publishing, Inc ISBN 9781588438812
      There is a cemetery next to the Mission, a small part of the huge one which was streeted over.
  2. To eject; to throw onto the streets.
    • 1959, The Irish Digest
      Stage doormen and all sorts of doormen are very quick at streeting a man who won't move fast. I know a well-known Irishman who at a New York theatre was streeted just because he was insisting on getting in when the house was apparently booked out.
  3. (sports, by extension) To heavily defeat.
    • 2002, John Maynard, Aborigines and the ‘Sport of Kings’: Aboriginal Jockeys in Australian Racing History, Aboriginal Studies Press (2013), ISBN 9781922059543, part II, gbooks 4erLAgAAQBAJ:
      Wearing his custom-made silks, McCarthy duly rode the horse a treat as they streeted the opposition and helped connections clean up the bookies.
    • 2008, Steve Menzies, Norman Tasker, Beaver: The Steve Menzies Story, Allen & Unwin, ISBN 9781741755602, chapter 1, gbooks MC0_bNv8XNYC:
      But when I came back in Round 14, the team had lost only two of those previous 13 games, we were sitting with Melbourne at the top of the premiership table and the two clubs had virtually streeted the rest of the competition.
    • 2014, Rochelle Llewelyn Nicholls, Joe Quinn Among the Rowdies: The Life of Baseball's Honest Australian, McFarland & Company, Inc., ISBN 9780786479801, part VI, chapter 14, gbooks xyChBAAAQBAJ:
      Pennant winners Kansas City and nearest rivals St. Paul had streeted the Western League in 1901, but were brought back to the field in 1902 by a powerful Omaha outfit who just missed out on the pennant, their .600 win-loss percentage just outdone by Kansas City's .603.
  4. To go on sale.
    • 2003, Billboard, page 55
      He points to the success of a recent Destiny's Child DVD that streeted just after member Beyonce's new solo CD
  5. (Japanese Mormonism) To proselytize in public.
    • 2007, John Patrick Hoffmann, Japanese Saints: Mormons in the Land of the Rising Sun, Lexington Books ISBN 9780739116890, page 94
      Although streeting or tracting, as the first two contacting methods are known, tend to produce negligible results when seen through a broad sociological lens, there was often something about meeting American missionaries that appealed to our Japanese Latter-day Saints.
    • 2010, Eugene Woodbury, Tokyo South, Peaks Island Press, ISBN 9781452301037, chapter 9, gbooks GaFxEbN_6I0C:
      They streeted the rest of the afternoon, and each picked up an intro lesson. They went back to the church after dinner.

Street
Proper noun
  1. Surname
  2. A town in Somerset, England.



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