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▸ noun: A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
▸ noun: (specifically, US) The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.
▸ noun: Metonymic senses:
▸ noun: The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.
▸ noun: (attributive) Living in the streets.
▸ noun: (slang, uncountable) Streetwise slang.
▸ noun: (slang, in the plural) People in general, as a source of information.
▸ noun: (figuratively) A great distance.
▸ noun: (poker slang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
▸ noun: (uncountable, sports) A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.
▸ adjective: (slang) Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.
▸ verb: To build or equip with streets.
▸ verb: To eject; to throw onto the streets.
▸ verb: (sports, by extension) To heavily defeat.
▸ verb: To go on sale.
▸ verb: (Japanese Mormonism) To proselytize in public.
▸ noun: (countable) A surname.
▸ noun: A placename:
▸ noun: A small village in Branscombe parish, East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SY1888).
▸ noun: A large village and civil parish in Mendip district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4836).
▸ noun: A hamlet in Holcombe parish, Mendip district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST6750).
▸ noun: A village in County Westmeath, Ireland.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland, United States.
▸ noun: (finance) Ellipsis of Wall Street. [(originally US, metonymically) American financial institutions or financial markets as a whole; (by extension) big-business interests.]
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sidewalk,
alleyway,
sidestreet,
boulevard,
alley,
road,
thoroughfare,
neighborhood,
streel,
plaza,
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