street

noun

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.”

   “The man wearing a red coat is standing on the street.”

2. 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.”

3. (Canada, US, specifically)The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.
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5. Metonymic senses:

   “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.”

6. Metonymic senses:

   “I got some pot cheap on the street.”

   “The seized drugs had a street value of $5 million.”

7. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Metonymic senses:

   “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.”

8. (attributive)Living in the streets.

   “a street cat”

   “a street urchin”

9. (slang, uncountable)Streetwise slang.

   “Toaster is street for guns.”

10. (in-plural, slang)People in general, as a source of information.

    “Streets say something's happening tomorrow.”

11. (figuratively)A great distance.

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

    “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.”

12. (slang)Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
13. (uncountable)A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.

adj

1. (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.”

verb

1. To build or equip with streets.

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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.

   “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. (broadly)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.”

   “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.”

   “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.

   “He points to the success of a recent Destiny's Child DVD that streeted just after member Beyonce's new solo CD”

   ““Family & Friends 5” was recorded last May in Detroit at Greater Grace Temple. The event was also taped for a DVD that streeted the same day as the CD.”

5. (Japanese, Mormonism)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.”

   “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.”

   “They streeted the rest of the afternoon, and each picked up an intro lesson. They went back to the church after dinner.”

name

1. (countable)A surname.
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8. (countable, uncountable)A place in England:
9. (countable, uncountable)A village in County Westmeath, Ireland.
10. (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland, United States.