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street names

street names is the plural of street name.

Meaning of street name

Noun

street name (plural street names)

  1. The slang term for a drug when it is traded as a street drug.
    • They said they'd never heard of medetomidine, but when the cop referred to it by its street name — rhino tranq — their ears perked up.
  2. A person’s nickname on the street, such as a gangster or mafia name; (loosely) any nickname.
    • They said they'd never heard of Mister Dzhugashvili, but when the cop referred to him by his street name — Stalin — their ears perked up.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see street, name.
    • Holonym: street address

Questions about street names

What is street names the plural of?
Street names is the plural of street name.

Words near street names in the dictionary

  1. street money
  2. street musician
  3. street musicians
  4. street nail
  5. street name
  6. street names
  7. street newspaper
  8. street newspapers
  9. street number
  10. street numbers
  11. Street on the Fosse

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Adapted from Wiktionary: street names (page history and authors); street name (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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