streets

/stɹiːts/

noun

  1. 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. 2

    A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.

    I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.
  3. 3

    The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.

  4. 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. 5

    An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.

    I got some pot cheap on the street.
  6. 6

    Streetwise slang.

  7. 7

    A great distance.

    He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.
  8. 8

    Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.

  9. 9

    Living in the streets.

    a street cat; a street urchin
  10. 10

    (urban toponymy) By restriction, the streets that run perpendicular to avenues.

verb

  1. 1

    To build or equip with streets.

  2. 2

    To eject; to throw onto the streets.

  3. 3

    (by extension) To heavily defeat.

  4. 4

    To go on sale.

  5. 5

    To proselytize in public.

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