streets

Noun

street (plural streets)

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. A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
   • I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.

   Synonyms:

   way

3. (Canada, US, specifically) The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.
4. The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
5. 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, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 24
6. An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.
   • I got some pot cheap on the street.

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