Sekirov Dictionary

street

/stɹiːt/

noun 13
verb 5
adjective 1
forms 5
phrases 9

noun13

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a road with a hard surface, usually in a town or village
- Walk down the street until you see a hotel on the right.
- The man wearing a red coat is standing on the street.
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A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
- I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.
- I've been shopping in Oxford Street.
(US, Canada) The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.
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An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.
- I got some pot cheap on the street.
- The seized drugs had a street value of $5 million.
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Ellipsis of Wall Street.
- Orders were reported to have increased 2% monthly, ahead of the 1.2% expected by the street.
- Professional services and other revenue made up $577 million, edging out street estimates for $541.4 million.
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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.
- Take or be taken. Get yours or get got. It was the code of the streets and I'd lived by it. The way things was looking, I was prolly gone die by it too. — 2006
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(figurative) A great distance.
- He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.
[before a noun] Living in the streets.
The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
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[in the plural] (slang) People in general, as a source of information.
- Streets say something's happening tomorrow.
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(slang) Streetwise slang.
- Toaster is street for guns. — 2008
A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.
(slang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.

verb5

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To go on sale.
- He points to the success of a recent Destiny's Child DVD that streeted just after member Beyonce's new solo CD — 2003
To eject; to throw onto the streets.
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To build or equip with streets.
- There is a cemetery next to the Mission, a small part of the huge one which was streeted over. — 2011
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To heavily defeat.
- Wearing his custom-made silks, McCarthy duly rode the horse a treat as they streeted the opposition and helped connections clean up the bookies. — 2002
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To proselytize in public.
- A person I met streeting in Osaka told me the above Kanji examples as well as many others that I have since forgot. — 2000

adjective1

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(slang) Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.
- 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. — 2003

forms

streeted · streeting · streets · more street · most street

Phrases with street

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