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      street
      noun
      A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
      A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
      (specifically, US, Canada) The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.
      The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
      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.
      An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.
      Metonymic senses:
      (slang, uncountable) Streetwise slang.
      (slang, in the plural) People in general, as a source of information.
      (figuratively) A great distance.
      (uncountable, sports) A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.
      (poker slang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
      (attributive) Living in the streets.
      (countable) A surname.
      A place in England:
      A hamlet in Orton parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria (OS grid ref NY6208).
      A small village in Branscombe parish, East Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SY1888).
      A hamlet in Nether Wyresdale parish, Wyre district, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD5252).
      A hamlet in Glaisdale parish, North Yorkshire (OS grid ref NZ7304).
      A large village and civil parish in Somerset, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST4836).
      A hamlet in Holcombe parish, Somerset, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST6750).
      A hamlet in Winsham parish, Somerset (OS grid ref ST3507).
      A village in County Westmeath, Ireland.
      An unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland, United States.
      (finance) Ellipsis of Wall Street. [(originally US, metonymic) American financial institutions or financial markets as a whole; (by extension) big-business interests.]
      verb
      To build or equip with streets.
      To eject; to throw onto the streets.
      (sports, by extension) To heavily defeat.
      To go on sale.
      (Japanese Mormonism) To proselytize in public.
      adjective
      (slang) Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.
      Roots
      stratastreet- · Latin · paved road
      Synonyms for street
      avenuenalleywaynboulevardnalleynthoroughfarenroadnlanenroadwaynparkwaynhighwayndrivewaynfreewaynmewsnwynd
      Words related to street
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