Definitionen
1.NounA 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.NounA 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.NounThe roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.
4.NounMetonymic senses:
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."I got some pot cheap on the street.; The seized drugs had a street value of $5 million.; 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."
5.NounThe people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
6.NounThe 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.
7.NounAn illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs."I got some pot cheap on the street.; The seized drugs had a street value of $5 million."
8.NounEllipsis of Wall Street."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."
9.NounLiving in the streets."a street cat; a street urchin"
10.NounStreetwise slang.
11.NounPeople in general, as a source of information."Streets say something's happening tomorrow."
12.NounA great distance."He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school."
13.NounEach of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
14.NounA style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.
15.AdjectiveHaving street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.
16.VerbTo build or equip with streets.
17.VerbTo eject; to throw onto the streets.
18.VerbTo heavily defeat.
19.VerbTo go on sale.
20.VerbTo proselytize in public.