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streetn.adj.

Brit. /striːt/, U.S. /strit/
Forms: early Old English stręt, Old English stræd (rare), Old English streot (in a late copy), Old English (in a late copy)–early Middle English straet, Old English–early Middle English stræt, Old English–early Middle English strat, Old English (in a late copy)–Middle English streit, Old English (Anglian)–Middle English stret, late Old English–early Middle English 1500s streat, early Middle English ster- (in compounds), early Middle English strætt, early Middle English stratt, early Middle English stre- (in compounds), early Middle English stred- (in compounds), early Middle English strede, Middle English strat- (in compounds), Middle English strate, Middle English stred, Middle English strett, Middle English streytt, Middle English–1500s strette, Middle English–1600s streete, Middle English (in a late copy)–1600s streite, Middle English–1600s strete, Middle English– street, 1500s streitt, 1500s streyte, 1500s striet, 1500s (1900s– English regional (Yorkshire)) streyt, 1500s–1600s streate, 1800s– strit (English regional (east midlands)); Scottish pre-1700 strat, pre-1700 strayt, pre-1700 streat, pre-1700 stredt, pre-1700 streit, pre-1700 streith, pre-1700 streitt, pre-1700 stret, pre-1700 strete, pre-1700 strett, pre-1700 streyt, pre-1700 striett, pre-1700 1700s– street.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian strēte , Old Dutch strāta (Middle Dutch strāte , Dutch straat ), Old Saxon strāta (Middle Low German strāte ), Old High German strāza (Middle High German strāze , German Straße ) < post-classical Latin strata paved road, highway (4th cent.), use as noun (short for via strata paved road) of classical Latin strāta , feminine past participle of sternere to lay down, to pave (see stratum n.). Compare ( < Old English or Old Frisian) Old Icelandic stræti, Old Swedish sträte (Swedish sträte), Danish stræde, and ( < Middle Low German) Old Swedish strata (Swedish stråt), Old Danish stradae (Danish regional strade). Compare also ( < post-classical Latin) Anglo-Norman strae, Anglo-Norman and Old French estree (c1100; also (after Middle English) Anglo-Norman estrete (14th cent. or earlier)), Old Occitan estrada (mid 12th cent.; early 12th cent. asstrada), Catalan estrada (second half of the 11th cent.; earlier as istrata (late 9th cent), strada (late 10th cent.)), Spanish estrada (1250; late 8th cent. as strada), Portuguese estrada (early 10th cent.), Italian strada (1211; > Middle French, French estrade road, usually in phrases with military connotations (c1450; 1440 in sense ‘skirmish’)).Compare Early Irish sráit street (Irish sráid ) < post-classical Latin; Welsh ystryd , stryd street (13th cent.) < Middle English. Compare also Early Irish srath (broad) valley, plain by a river (Irish srath ), Welsh ystrad (broad) valley, plain by a river, also occasionally ‘street’ (12th cent.) < a Celtic base cognate with classical Latin strātum stratum n. Attested early in place names (chiefly with reference to Roman roads; compare sense A. 1), as Strætford (a1016; now Stratford St Mary, Suffolk), Stretford (c1025 in a copy of a charter of 781; now Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire), Stratune (1086; now East Stretton, Hampshire), etc. Shortened forms of this word in place names give some of the most important evidence for the distribution in the Middle English dialects of the different reflexes of Germanic ǣ (Old English (West Saxon) ǣ , (non-West Saxon) ē ). (See further e.g. R. Jordan Handb. der mittelenglischen Grammatik (ed. 2, 1934) §49.) Street names ending in street (compare sense A. 2b) are usually stressed on the first element, while those ending in road , lane , avenue , etc. generally have stress on the second element. (For recent discussion of this and related issues see e.g. I. Plag ‘The variability of compound stress in English: structural, semantic and analogical factors’ in Eng. Lang. & Linguistics 10 (2006) 143–72.) In vortex street at sense A. 4c after German Wirbelstraße (1913 or earlier).
A. n.
1.
a. A paved road, esp. a Roman road; a highway. Now historical except as preserved in the proper names of certain ancient (chiefly Roman) roads.Examples of such survivals in England include Watling Street (see Watling Street n. 1), Ermine Street (originally running from London to the Humber), and Icknield or Ryknild Street (from Gloucestershire to south Yorkshire).
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > paved
streeteOE
causey1495
streetway1600
causeway1611
eOE Bounds (Sawyer 298) in D. Hooke Pre-Conquest Charter-bounds Devon & Cornwall (1994) 105 Ðonon on ða lytlan burg westewearde ðonon to stræte.
OE Beowulf (2008) 320 Stræt wæs stanfah, stig wisode gumum ætgædere.
lOE Royal Charter: Eadred to Ælfsige Hunlafing (Sawyer 566) in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 56 On Earninga stræte æt þam stapelan, & þonne norþ æfter strate to þere dic, on Ceastertuninga gemærie.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2415 Þa þeos stræt [c1300 Otho stredes] weoren idon, þa leide þa king heom laȝen on þat wha-swa i þen stræten breken grið, þe king him wolde bi-nimen his lif.
c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) l. 962 Wenstu þat uise men forlete For fule venne þe riȝtte strete.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 172 Fram þe souþ tilþ to þe norþ erninge stret, & fram est to þe west ykenilde stret, Fram douere in to chestre tilleþ watelinge stret.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. l. 12809 He passed hilles, wod, & playn, tille þei com þer þe strete lay hi.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xii. l. 105 And riȝt as syȝte serueth a man to se þe heighe strete.
?1403 in T. F. Simmons Lay Folks Mass Bk. (1879) 65 For thaim that brigges and stretes makes and amendes.
1546 in W. Page Certificates Chantries County of York (1895) II. 264 Being one thoroughffare towne of the Kinges strete ledyng from London to Karliel.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxvii. 98 The Male knot grasse groweth in fieldes about wayes and pathes, and in streates.
1606 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1884) I. 50 The Kinges Maties street called Nunhouse Lane.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 397 The publicke Street commonly called Watlingstreet.
1724 H. Moll New Descr. Eng. & Wales 335/2 The Roman Street runs from Ebchester to Corbridge, so from Corbridge to Resingham.
1746 Eng. Traveller I. 467 The Street,..which is the very word almost by which Bede calls a Roman Road..and which we also find in an old perambulation of the forest.
1861 M. E. C. Walcott East Coast Eng. 41 A Roman highway, the Stane Street, led to the town [of Dunwich] from Caistor.
1903 J. Conrad & F. M. Hueffer Romance i. i. 5 Just beside the Roman road to Canterbury; Stone Street—the Street—we called it.
2004 Adventure Trav. July 87 Dere Street Roman road beelines for miles over the fields.
†b. More generally: a road, way, path (literal and figurative). to wend one's street: to go one's way. to take (the) street: to set out. Obsolete.In later use merging with or understood as sense A. 2.
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society > travel > [verb (intransitive)]
nimeOE
becomec885
teec888
goeOE
i-goc900
lithec900
wendeOE
i-farec950
yongc950
to wend one's streetOE
fare971
i-wende971
shakeOE
winda1000
meteOE
wendOE
strikec1175
seekc1200
wevec1200
drawa1225
stira1225
glidea1275
kenc1275
movec1275
teemc1275
tightc1275
till1297
chevec1300
strake13..
travelc1300
choosec1320
to choose one's gatea1325
journeyc1330
reachc1330
repairc1330
wisec1330
cairc1340
covera1375
dressa1375
passa1375
tenda1375
puta1382
proceedc1392
doa1400
fanda1400
haunta1400
snya1400
take?a1400
thrilla1400
trace?a1400
trinea1400
fangc1400
to make (also have) resortc1425
to make one's repair (to)c1425
resort1429
ayrec1440
havea1450
speer?c1450
rokec1475
wina1500
hent1508
persevere?1521
pursuec1540
rechec1540
yede1563
bing1567
march1568
to go one's ways1581
groyl1582
yode1587
sally1590
track1590
way1596
frame1609
trickle1629
recur1654
wag1684
fadge1694
haul1802
hike1809
to get around1849
riddle1856
bat1867
biff1923
truck1925
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [noun]
streetOE
wayOE
gatec1175
roda1231
roddin1502
fare1509
highpad1567
pad1567
road1581
chimin1613
ribbon1923
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xiii. 4 Dum seminat quaedam ceciderunt secus uiam : mið ðy uel ða huile saues ðorlease uel sum oðer gefeollon neh uel æt stræt uel woeg .
a1200 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Trin. Cambr.) 341 in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 230 (MED) [L]ate we þe brode strate [?c1250 Egerton stret] and þane weg bene.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6182 (MED) Godd badd þam wildrin wai to wend, Ar philistiens suld wit þam mete And lett þam for to wend þair strete.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17643 (MED) Þe morn his ass þan can he dight, To ierusalem he tok þe strete.
c1450 (c1370) G. Chaucer A.B.C. 70 Thanne makest thou his pees with his sovereyn, And bringest him out of the crooked strete.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 53 Tho wente he his strete, tho flewe I doun.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xxii. §3. 83 He led me on þe stretis of rightwisnes [L. super semitas iusticiæ].
c1510 Gest Robyn Hode 81 But as they loked in Barnysdale By a derne strete Then came there a knyght rydynge.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xv. B He that forsaketh ye right strete, shalbe sore punyshed.
a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Div For while I ran by the most secret stretes..From me catif alas bereued was Creusa then my spouse.
a1627 T. Middleton No Wit (1657) ii. i. 52 About it then, it requires haste, do't well; There's but a short street between us and Hell.
†c. In alliterative association, in by sty (also stile, stall) and by street, and variants: in all places, everywhere. Obsolete.
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c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8167 Ten þusend Scottes he sende bi-halues þe hæðene to imete bi stiȝen & bi straten [c1300 Otho bi weies and bi strede].
?a1300 Loue is Sofft (Digby) l. 13 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 108 (MED) Loue had his stiuart bi sti and bi strete.
a1450 Castle Perseverance (1969) l. 353 (MED) Werldys wele, be strete and stye, Faylyth and fadyth as fysch in flode.
a1450 Castle Perseverance (1969) l. 403 (MED) Cum agayn, be strete and style.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ii. 22 And whereso any man may me meyte, Ayther bi sty or yit bi strete.
a1500 Robin Hood & Monk in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1888) III. v. 101 (MED) Robyn Hode is euer bond to hym, Bothe in strete and stalle.
2.
a. A road in a city, town, or village, typically comparatively wide (as opposed to a lane, alley, etc.), and usually running between two lines of houses or other buildings; such a road along with the pavements and buildings on either side.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [noun]
streetOE
rewa1350
gate1488
gate-row1598
calle1611
drive1799
drag1851
drum1851
plate of meat1857
stem1914
OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) vi. 5 Hig gebiddon hi standende on gesomnungum & stræta hyrnum [L. in angulis platearum], þæt men hig geseon.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 7358 Þurrh þatt te kalldewisshe follc. Oppnedenn þeȝȝre maddmess. Nohht i þe stræte acc i þatt hus. þatt crist wass borenn inne.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xiv. 21 Go out soone in to grete stretis and smale streetis of the citee [L. in plateas et vicos civitatis].
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 152 Þe stretez er paued with swilk maner of stanes.
a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) l. 534 (MED) Now hath þis lord but litil neede of broomes To swepe a-way þe filthe out of þe street.
c1451 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert (1910) 101 Þe smale townes had no dwelleres, þe wallis were falle down and stretes distroyed.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxviii. 235 They lodged in the strete next to the palays.
1575 W. Drury in T. Churchyard Chippes f. 44v And no soenner entryng the towne, but our whole power kept them selues in order to cleer the streetes and commaund the inhabitantes the better.
1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iv. i. 38 I slidde downe by a bottome of packthread into the streete, and so scapt. View more context for this quotation
1611 Proclam. Building Lond. 3 Aug. At the least the forefront..thereof..looking towards the street or streetes [to] bee wholly built of Bricke.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 308 When they come to the crossing of a street, the Corps stayes.
1759 S. Johnson Idler 21 Apr. 121 A convenient house in a street.
1798 Monthly Mag. Mar. 181/2 Broadway is undoubtedly the handsomest street in America.
1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii I. i. ii. 9 The two young men sauntered through the streets.
1880 B. Disraeli Endymion I. xv. 125 It is the very best time for hiring a house. What I have set my heart upon is the Green Park... I am sure I could not live again in a street.
1885 Act 48 Vict. c. 17 §13 The lists of voters may be made out either alphabetically or by streets.
1889 Act 52 & 53 Vict. c. 44 §17 The expression ‘street’ includes any highway or other public place, whether a thoroughfare or not.
1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy i. ii. 52 Street after regular street of shoddily uniform houses intersected by a dark pattern of ginnels..and courts.
1970 N. Pevsner Cambridgeshire (Buildings of Eng.) (ed. 2) 474 In the main village street the Green Man Inn, probably a medieval house.
2004 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 11 July viii. 15/5 Squished deposits of chewing gum found on the streets of New York.
b. With prefixed word, forming the proper name of a street. Abbreviated St., st.These names were originally descriptive, as the Broad street, the High street (see high street n. and adj.), etc.; in some (esp. British) towns, names of this type still retain the definite article. While descriptive names remain common, the choice of a prefixed word is now more often determined by some other factor, as the wish to honour a prominent individual (e.g. Albert Street, Baker Street), or the application (chiefly in the U.S.) of a numerical or alphabetical system (e.g. Fifty-Second Street, K Street).Street is also used figuratively and allusively in the names of (real or imaginary) streets having a particular character, or where people of a certain type are supposed to reside, as civvy, easy, Grub, Queer, Short Street, etc.: see the first element.Until the 17th cent. the two parts of the compound were not infrequently written as one word (e.g. Limestreete, Fletestrete, etc.). Thereafter usage was divided as to the writing of street names with a hyphen or as two words, until the early 20th cent. when the hyphen was generally abandoned.
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eOE Estate Boundaries, Nunnaminster, Winchester in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1887) II. 305 Þonan up andlanges þæs eastran mylengeares þæt norð on þa ceapstræt. Þonne þær east andlanges þære ceapstræte oð cyninges burghege.
lOE Bounds (Sawyer 889) in J. M. Kemble Codex Diplomaticus (1848) VI. 135 Ærest fram Leofan hagan west andlang cypstræte oð hit cymð to flæs[c]mangere stræte. Andlang flæscmangara stræte ðet hit cymð to scyldwyrhtana stræte.
lOE Sale of Land, Exeter (Exeter 3501) (Dict. Old Eng. transcript) Ðis sinte ða gewitnisse of þam lande ðe Alfric paz bohte at frewines laue at hire on paules stret.
a1187 in E. Ekwall Street-names London (1954) 79 Candelwrichstrete.
a1225 in E. Ekwall Street-names London (1954) 69 [St Peter de] Bradestrete.
?c1275 in Trans. Shropshire Archæol. Soc. (1878) 1st Ser. 1 351 ij denar' annui reddit' de domo in le Brode stret q'm emi de Susanna moil.
1457 in J. T. Gilbert Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) I. 296 For Seynt Patryke ys stret.
1531 W. Tyndale Expos. Fyrste Epist. St. Jhon iii. sig. Fv Thoughe thou were annoynted with all thoyle in teames strete.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden 119 The Minister then seruing at Saint Albanes in Wood-street..satisfied the House for his lodging and Mangerie.
1640 W. Somner Antiq. Canterbury 20 The Iron crosse, which sometime stood at the East-end of Castle-street.
1682 Loyal London Mercury 16 Aug. 2/2 On Wednesday last that sort of Dissenters called Quakers..assembled, at their great Meeting house near Grace-Church-Street.
1711 Boston News-let. 1 Oct. 2/2 The Post Office being Burnt in the Great Conflagration on Tuesday night Last, It is at Present kept in the South-side of Milk Street.
1791 J. Hiltzheimer Diary 17 Sept. (1893) 172 I took Mr. Francis..to view the road, from Vine Street to Vanderen's Mill.
1842 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 5 200 St. James's Street, at 660 feet from Piccadilly, is 1 in 27.
1865 H. Kingsley Hillyars & Burtons xxix There was another forge established at the bottom of Church Street, and our business grew a little slack.
1922 W. J. Locke Tale of Triona iv. 38 She found herself the lucky tenant of a little suite in a set of service flats in Victoria Street.
1993 New Yorker 18 Jan. 56/3 Lavinia and her three children lived in a walkup on West 130th Street.
2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. 9/1 The luxury shops along Charles Street in Boston have plenty of ‘help wanted’ signs in the windows.
c. A town or village. Now rare and English regional (south-eastern).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town, village, or collection of dwellings > [noun]
thorpc725
homeeOE
byc950
castlec1000
wickc1000
streeta1325
placec1390
plecka1576
bourgade1601
township1602
townreda1613
ville1837
vicus1842
ham1864
stad1896
a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) 46 (MED) Ihesus..in þe stret of Bethffage ney Ierusalem com.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 167 In þis mount was a litil strete [L. viculus] þat hiȝt bethfage.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 3090 (MED) In a certayne strete he lende, Whare mony nonnes duelt to gyder.
1904 D. W. Lewin in Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 812/2 [Kent] ‘We were four miles out of the street.’ ‘After work they go down into the street.’
d. The inhabitants of a particular street; the people in a street collectively; (hence, more generally) the whole neighbourhood, everybody. Now usually as the whole street.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > inhabitants of a street
streeta1387
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 283 (MED) For þat dede al þe cherche sownede for joye, and þe street grucched.
c1450 in Englische Studien (1925) 59 6 (MED) So merely crowdeth than youre crokke That al the strete may here youre body clokke.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 382 Then roase the streete, namely the youth, and they woulde haue had him out of the Bishoppes house.
a1627 T. Middleton Chast Mayd in Cheape-side (1630) v. 66 All the whole Street will hate vs, and the World Point me out cruell.
1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull in his Senses iv. 17 If the Coach swung but the least to one side, she used to shriek so loud, that all the Street concluded she was overturn'd.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xiv. 107 Strap..run to the knocker, which he employed so loud and so long, that he alarmed the whole street.
1856 Chambers's Jrnl. 12 Jan. 26/1 There was a mystery about him which the whole street had tried its skill in fathoming.
1894 A. Morrison Tales Mean Streets 121 The street had the news the same hour.
1942 Times 29 Oct. 8/3 First of all an address is given to secure the attention of the whole street. A door-to-door canvas then takes place.
2002 Smash Hits 20 Mar. 23/2 I was busy getting jiggy in the living room with a girl and afterwards I realised the whole street could see what was going on.
e. street of houses (also shops): a number of houses or shops built in a double line with a road in the middle, forming a street.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > row or street of buildings
rowc1248
street of houses (also shops)1577
town-row1610
terrace1769
mews1805
strip1939
1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. i. viii. f. 13/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I There is also but one streete of houses therin.
1662 C. Trenchfield Christian Chym. 109 A certain person that had sold a street of houses, and laid out the money in costly apparrel, came to Court, [etc.].
1727 D. Defoe Tour Great Brit. III. ii. 191 Stopping a terrible Fire which otherwise had endangered burning the whole Street of Houses on the City Side of the Bridge.
1782 R. Robinson Polit. Catech. 80 I have so many acres of land, and you have a street of houses.
1855 C. Dickens Out of Town in Representative Pieces (1868) 217 We..built a street of shops, the business of which may be expected to arrive in about ten years.
1895 N. Amer. Rev. Nov. 593 Glasgow is also considering a plan for the extension of..washing establishments at the rear of every street of houses.
1999 G. Bear Darwin's Radio ii. 15 They descended with a high-pitched gnash of gears through a small street of shops.
3. In specific uses, chiefly with the.
†a. In the ancient world: the public square or forum of a town or city. Obsolete.Only in Old English and early Middle English.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > open space > public square
placeOE
streetOE
foruma1464
pomery1533
piazza1583
agora1591
pomerium1598
plazaa1661
squarea1684
piazzetta1730
town square1769
place1793
Pnyx1820
zocalo1884
plaza1948
OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) vii. 32 Hi synt gelice cildum on stræte [c1200 Hatton on strete; L. in foro] sittendum & specendum betwux him.
OE tr. Apollonius of Tyre (1958) x. 14 Ða astah Apollonius on þæt domsetl on ðare stræte [L. in foro].
OE tr. Apollonius of Tyre (1958) xx. 32 Apollonius hit [sc. oðer gewrit] þa ut bær on ða stræte [L. in foro] and sealde þam cynge.
b. A particular street in which the merchants or financiers of a city conduct business; now esp. (with capital initial) Wall Street, New York (chiefly U.S.). Hence, in extended use: the money market; the people who conduct transactions in stocks and shares regarded collectively. in the street (also in the Street): formerly applied to business done or prices quoted after the hour of closing of the London Stock Exchange.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > [noun] > financial centre
street1555
rialto1600
city1621
alley1720
Lombard Street1721
money centre1838
Wall Street1841
society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shopping centre, precinct, etc. > commercial area with variety of businesses
street1555
pantechnicon1842
shopping strip1935
strip1976
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > [noun] > money-dealer > capitalist or financier > in Wall Street > collectively
street1555
society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [adverb] > type of transaction
in the street1895
for new time1902
over the counter1921
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. xi. f. 149 Cities fortified with waules..and common places whyther marchauntes resort as to the burse or streate. [L. plateas etiam, stratasque uias ordine composito, ubi negocientur, haberent.]
1563 T. Gresham in J. W. Burgon Life & Times Sir T. Gresham (1839) II. 26 By the reason, this plague tyme, there is noe money nor creadit to be had in the streat of London [editor explains as Lombard-street].
1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles i. i. 77 This maxim echoes through the bankers' street.
1854 G. G. Foster Fifteen Minutes around N.Y. iii. 15 The stock sales are over... The members of the ‘third board’ are snooping about ‘the street’, picking up items here and there of what has really been going on during the morning.
1861 T. Winthrop Cecil Dreeme xv. 171 The broken-down merchant, who must show himself on the Street, though the Street noted him no more.
1883 Nation (N.Y.) 16 Aug. 132/1 ‘The Street’ begins to play a larger and larger part in the financial world, owing to the enormous amounts of American capital it holds and of foreign capital it distributes.
1895 Daily News 11 Jan. 7/1 After a weak opening South African shares improved,..and..the tone in the ‘Street’ this evening appeared firm.
1903 N.Y. Times 30 Aug. 1/5 The Street has never received any direct information as to the identity of those now in control.
1938 Times 27 July 20 Prices..showed little or no recovery throughout official hours, though a better tone supervened in the ‘Street’.
1953 S. Kauffmann Philanderer iii. 38 Russell inquired, in customary mock-religious tones, about the state of the Street and cotton futures.
2003 Euromoney (Nexis) July It soon became widely quoted on the Street and in the press as a way of gauging investor sentiment.
c. The street as the locale of prostitution. Chiefly in to be (also to go) on (or †upon) the street(s) at Phrases 4b.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun]
bordelc1300
prostitution1553
trugging1591
trade1592
putanism1672
street1750
Magdalenism1840
the life1858
profession1888
social evil1901
hustling1924
game1926
sex trade1931
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 12. ⁋10 She told me, that having a respect for my relations, she was willing to keep me out of the street, and would let me have another week.
1809 J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 303 A Miss of the street.
1898 Daily News 21 July 8/6 The prosecutrix pestered her to ‘go on the game’, i.e. the streets.
1905 R. Broughton Waif's Progress i. 6 ‘If we refuse the girl, what is the alternative?’ ‘None, apparently, but the streets.’
1999 S. Romaine Communicating Gender iii. 77 The expression girl of the town (since given way to woman of the street) meant a prostitute.
d. The streets regarded as the realm of ordinary people, and especially as the source of popular political support for a cause or party.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > realm of
street1931
1931 W. Lewis Hitler 57 The Democrats..have not been able to deal with the Nazi because of his Mastery of the Street.
1954 B. North & R. North tr. M. Duverger Polit. Parties i. i. 38 The Storm troops wrested from the Communist and Socialist crowds their dominance of the street.
1969 Listener 24 Apr. 555/3 This was the street taking over a modern state in a way which hasn't happened, I think, at any other time in our history.
2005 R. Nidel World Music: Basics iii. 190 Abdel El Halim Hafez...was the golden boy of the Nationalist revolution in 1952 when pan-Arabism arose, the darling of Nasser and the street.
e. Usually with capital initial. Short for Fleet Street n. at fleet n.2 Compounds 2.
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society > communication > journalism > newspaper offices > [noun] > locations of
Printing House Square1832
Fleet Street1882
street1932
1932 News Chron. 11 Feb. 6/3 A year ago he was coming back as Editor to the Street.
1963 L. Meynell Virgin Luck v. 101 The Street isn't the best place to come looking for a job at the moment.
1976 ‘J. Welcome’ Grand National viii. 123 Things were bad on the street... Two dailies were..expected to be unable to survive.
1991 Independent 5 Jan. 27/1 Wharton's hilarious tales of the Street in the last three decades before the national newspapers decamped.
f. Originally U.S. slang. The world outside prison or other confinement; freedom. Cf. on the street at Phrases 4d(a).
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > the world outside of
street1935
1931 G. Irwin Amer. Tramp & Underworld Slang 185 Streets, freedom, and so called by prisoners in confinement.]
1935 J. Hargan Gloss. Prison Lang. 8 Street, hit the, to be released.
1956 ‘B. Holiday’ & W. Dufty Lady sings Blues xviii. 163 I was too busy thinking about ‘the street’ all the time and the life I'd left.
1966 J. Mills Panic in Needle Park xix. 184 It is no accident that our patients refer to the world outside [the hospital] as ‘the street’: they cherish their mobility, the opportunity to escape difficult relationships, very highly.
1977 E. Leonard Unknown Man No. 89 iv. 35 The jury believed Robert Leary and he was allowed to return to the street.
2003 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 100/1 Nobody ought to be able to walk straight from a prison to the street. Inmates need to decompress. That's what halfway-houses were supposed to be for.
4. In extended use.
a. A passage between continuous lines of persons or things.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, passage, or means of access to a place > [noun] > between lines of persons or things
streetc1384
lane1525
alley1631
alleyway1788
gangway1788
aisle1789
lokeway1888
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Ezek. xli. 7 The street was in to round, styinge vpward bi the heeȝ toure.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 4 The meyer..Made hem hove in rengis twayne, A strete betwene eche party lyke a walle, Alle clad in white, [etc.].
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iv. 113 The shot..arriuing, do open, making a lane or streete, betwixt the which the Pikes do enter.
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. ii. ii. 260 Twentie six Ships,..besides a greater number of smaller vessels, fastned one before another in two wings, making a street betwixt them.
1750 tr. R.-A. F. de Réaumur Art of hatching Domestick Fowls vii. 371 I even place two mothers in each cask over against one another, which are separated only by a kind of street.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. at Camp The tents are placed in rows..with spaces between them, called streets.
1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iii. viii. 106 I was ushered through an actual street of servitors..into a large and very crowded saloon.
1829 J. Shipp Mem. Mil. Career II. 133 To do honour to the reception of such a personage, the two flank companies of the 87th Regiment..formed a street to the general's tent.
1883 Daily News 5 Sept. 5/6 If..a hundred thousand of them could be marshalled in Hyde Park, the artillery of the Government would make streets through them.
1976 J. Philips Backlash I. 4 Army sentries patrolled the perimeter of the camp, and..the ‘streets’ between the huts and tents.
2004 Seattle Times (Nexis) 25 Sept. a1 Cramped ‘streets’ between rows of campers.
b. Such a passage including the things on either side, as street of booths, ships, tents, etc. (cf. sense A. 2e).
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1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage iv. xviii. 435 It seemed to bee, as it were, a continued street of Shippes.
1684 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 359 The Weather continuing intollerably severe,..streetes of Boothes were set up upon the Thames.
1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. i. at Aduár A Street of Booths or Tents.
1854 W. Gillespie Land of Sinim 200 More than a hundred thousand people live in boats on the river... The long streets of boats, brilliantly lighted at night,..have a fine effect.
1987 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 15 Apr. A ‘street’ of tents, featuring theatre, dance, music and visual arts, will be created in the downtown of each city the festival visits.
c. Physics. More fully vortex street. An arrangement of vortices in two parallel lines, with clockwise rotation in one line and anticlockwise rotation in the other. Cf. Kármán (vortex) street at Kármán n.
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the world > matter > physics > mechanics > dynamics > fluid dynamics > [noun] > vortex > arrangement or region of vortices
vortex sheet1879
street1926
Kármán street of vortices1928
cloud street1954
1926 H. Glauert Elements Aerofoil & Airscrew Theory ix. 119 The nature of the resulting vortex street will depend on the magnitude of the viscosity.
1929 Aircraft Engin. 1 124/3 Vortices in a ‘street’ of two rows.
1973 Times 29 Jan. 14/4 As a fish swims it produces a turbulent ‘vortex street’ of whirling water behind it.
1978 R. S. Scorer Environmental Aerodynamics ix. 341 Streets are common over the sea, particularly where the air stream is being slowly warmed.
2007 Exper. Thermal & Fluid Sci. 31 753/1 For not too high heat inputs the vortex street can be deflected.
5. Chiefly Skateboarding. A style focusing on tricks performed on flat pavement and obstacles commonly found in an urban environment, such as kerbs, rails, and stairs. Cf. vert n.3
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1993 Vibe Sept. 76/1 ‘Vert's dead’, say most skaters. ‘And Street killed it.’
1998 Unity Sept. 29/1 (advt.) A slew of new skaters that are setting the standards for street and vert.
B. adj.
Characteristic of or in tune with the urban subculture of the streets.
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1977 Daily Mail 5 Sept. 6/3 I heard a punk group described as ‘very street’ last week.
1989 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 10 Sept. ii. 30/5 The new album will be ‘more street’, using elements of the rap sound.
1997 C. Rock Rock This! v. 105 Women..go for guys with a little edge... They want somebody who's cool and street.
2001 Guardian 28 Sept. ii. 16/4 Radio 2 which, for all the hype, is hardly street enough to attract vast numbers of teenagers.
2005 N.Y. Times 20 Feb. (T: Style Mag.) 220 I grew up in the white suburbs... I really wanted to be street.

Phrases

P1. in the street(s): outside the house, outdoors; (also) out of doors in a town or city.
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the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [phrase] > in the open air
in the street(s)a1400
in the weathera1513
in overt1599
sub dio1602
in fresco1620
on (also upon) the street(s)1653
sub jove frigido1806
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2772 He praid þam..Þai wald to gestening com hame,..and þai said nai, Bot in the stret þar duell wald þai.
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 4546 Þan sal þair bodys..In þe stretes ligg stille thre days And an half,..For na man sal þam dur biry.
a1425 (?a1350) Seven Sages (Galba) (1907) l. 1556 (MED) Þe dore ful stalworthly he sperd..And lete his whif stand in þe strete.
a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 193 (MED) As he walkyd yn þe strete, he herd a womon cry trauelyng on chyld.
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 26 Diogenes..being asked why he eate openlie in the streete, answered because he was an hungered in the streete.
1582 W. Allen Briefe Hist. Glorious Martyrdom sig. D8v He was apprehended in the streats of London ready to goe ouer to the seminarie at Remes.
1691 A. Gavin Frauds Romish Monks 333 They expose to public view in the Streets..many infamous naked Pictures, and Grotesques, to cause laughter.
1714 Spectator No. 570. ⁋1 You may often see an Artist in the Streets gain a Circle of Admirers by carrying a long Pole upon his Chin.
1883 J. C. Jeaffreson Real Ld. Byron I. 260 On leaving parties, to which she had not been invited, he found her waiting for him in the street.
1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 15/3 ‘Gentlemen’, said I, ‘you don't know anything about me, so I'll tell you. I'm just out of jail, and—’ About a minute later I found myself outside, in the street.
2006 Nexus (U.K./Europe ed.) Feb. 11/2 Get your flu shot. Every autumn. Don't wait. You might fall over dead in the street!
†P2. to weep full a street: to weep copiously. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > weep [verb (intransitive)] > copiously
to weep one's fill or bellyfula1290
to weep out one's eyes heartc1290
forweepa1375
to weep full a streeta1413
to cry (also weep, etc.) one's eyes outa1450
bawl1605
cry1705
to cry (also sob, weep, etc.) one's heart out1732
a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iv. l. 929 What helpeþ it to wepen ful a strete, Or þough ye boþe in salte teris drenche?
P3. to walk the street(s): to go about on foot in a town, to roam at large in the streets; spec. (with reference to prostitutes) = to be (also to go) on (or †upon) the street(s) at Phrases 4b (cf. streetwalker n. 2, streetwalking n.).
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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > in the streets
to beat the streetsc1375
to walk the street(s)1530
vicambulate1873
society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] > expose or offer for sale > solicit custom for > by travelling to business area
to walk the street(s)1530
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [verb (intransitive)] > practise prostitution
to walk the street(s)1530
to play the harlot (formerly also harlots)1535
whore1547
strumpc1550
strumpet1627
prostitute1631
to be (also to go) on (or upon) the street(s)1754
hustle1930
ho1972
tom1981
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 770/2 In dede you walke the stretes.
1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 1112 Certein companions which doe nothing but walke the streets.
1606 N. Baxter Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia sig. K3v Each swaggering Ruffin now that walk's the streetes, Proud as Lucifer, stabbeth whom he meetes.
1709 T. Hearne in J. Walker Lett. Eminent Persons (1813) I. 193 There has been a person in Oxford, who saw her walk the street since this amazing accident.
1714 E. Budgell tr. Theophrastus Moral Characters xxiv. 69 When he walks the Streets, he never Condescends to look about him, or to know any one he meets.
1743 A. Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) i. 230 While all your smutty sisters walk the streets.
1753 J. Collier Ess. Art of Tormenting i. ii. 54 How likely is it, that..you would be deserted by those base wretches your seducers! You know I have often wept,..lest you should come to walk London Streets.
1824 Lancet 12 June 335/2 The unfortunate female will also tell you that she continued to walk the streets, night after night.
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table viii. 225 When a lady walks the streets..she knows well enough that the street is a picture-gallery, where pretty faces..are meant to be seen, and everybody has a right to see them.
1891 E. B. Clark Twelve Months Peru iii. 55 It is considered highly improper for a Limeña, either married or single, to walk the streets alone.
1908 S. E. White Riverman xvii The remainder of the time he spent walking the streets and reading in the club rooms.
1966 H. Davies New London Spy (1967) 236 Many of the younger prostitutes who walk the streets of Paddington and Notting Hill are under their control.
1998 P. Gourevitch We wish to inform You xvi. 245 There are many more killers still walking the streets than we have in prison.
P4. on (also †upon) the street(s).
a. Originally Scottish and U.S. = in the street(s) at Phrases 1.
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the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [phrase] > in the open air
in the street(s)a1400
in the weathera1513
in overt1599
sub dio1602
in fresco1620
on (also upon) the street(s)1653
sub jove frigido1806
OE Ælfric Homily: De Duodecim Abusivis (Corpus Cambr. 178) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 302 Ne flit he mid ceaste, ne sace ne astyreð ne on strætum [lOE Vesp. D.xiv on stræte] ne gehyrð ænig mann hys stemne.]
1653 T. Urquhart Logopandecteision iv. 74 I saw at Madrid a bald-pated fellow, who beleeved he was Julius Caesar, and therefore went constantly on the streets with a Laurel Crown on his head.
1753 Extracts Trial J. Stewart in Scots Mag. Sept. 447/1 The deponent..met William Stewart upon the street.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. v. 47 He recognised me on the streets, and spoke to me seven months after.
1883 C. D. Warner Roundabout Journey 37 The young women are on the street with babies; the old ones sit by the doors of their little shops or their houses and knit.
1903 W. D. Howells Lett. Home iii. 20 They say that New-Yorkers never meet each other on the street.
2006 Touch Dec. 35/3 When I'm out on the street I get more people coming up to me saying ‘I love your music’ or ‘I felt you’.
b. to be (also to go) on (or †upon) the street(s): to be a prostitute. Cf. to walk the street(s) at Phrases 3.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [verb (intransitive)] > practise prostitution
to walk the street(s)1530
to play the harlot (formerly also harlots)1535
whore1547
strumpc1550
strumpet1627
prostitute1631
to be (also to go) on (or upon) the street(s)1754
hustle1930
ho1972
tom1981
1754 J. Shebbeare Marriage Act II. 228 By Heavens! I would rather hear of her being on the Streets of London, than married to so vile a Fellow.
1802 H. Martin Helen of Glenross III. 82 To be..accompanied by any woman, not absolutely on the streets, is a point to her, whom scarce one does not feel unwilling to appear publicly with.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 60/2 Two girls, who..had been forced to go upon the streets to gain a living.
1886 S. Baring-Gould Court Royal xiii They went into service, and when they found that they were expected to dust chairs and wash up breakfast things they went on the streets.
2002 W. Kennedy Roscoe 99 ‘She's a working girl’, Roscoe said. ‘She's been on the street ever since I know [sic] her’.
c. on the streets: turned out of doors, homeless.figurative in quot. 1852.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > [adjective] > homeless
homelessOE
harbourlessc1175
innlessa1325
houseless1357
placelessa1387
on the pavéc1450
unharbouredc1450
roomless1548
dishousedc1595
dislodged1602
unhouseda1616
unlodged1634
bedless1707
on the pavement1743
roofless1797
on (also upon) the street(s)1832
unhomed1839
dishomed1880
dwellingless1882
homesteadless1885
1832 Times 22 Mar. 2/6 The young ‘vagrants’ at West Ham are between 10 and 15 years of age. They might as well be on the streets as maintained in idleness in Mr Wilson's institution.
1852 J. Anderson in Lit. Gaz. 3 Jan. 12/2 The door of the church..opened, and there issued forth Chalmers and Welsh,..and the Church of Scotland was on the streets, and free.
1876 Votes & Proc. (New S. Wales L. A.) VI. 856 A number of youngsters were on the streets; they used to sleep about the wharves, lived on thieving.
1940 F. D. Davison Woman at Mill ii. 151 I found myself on the streets again, without a brass razoo.
2004 H. Kennedy Just Law (2005) xi. 243 Most of those on the streets are so demoralised that they have come to believe punishment is no more than they deserve.
d. on the street.
(a) Originally U.S. slang. Outside prison, at liberty (cf. sense A. 3f).
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1915 Boston Daily Globe 19 Dec. 37/1 If one gets in, his friends and his lawyer do what they can to ‘put him on the street’—to testify or exonerate him.
1928 S. Weyman Lively Peggy (1931) vi. 53 Haven't you heard, miss? That his son's on the street again?
1935 N. Ersine Underworld & Prison Slang 73 Street, n., figuratively, freedom. ‘Another year will see him on the street.’
1951 W. Faulkner Requiem for Nun iii. 251 They worked their fines out on the street.
1994 Time 7 Feb. 58/1 In many inner-city neighborhoods, young men regard prison time as more a rite of passage than a deterrent... Once back on the street, these youths enjoy an enhanced status.
(b) slang. With reference to the sale or acquisition of drugs: by illegal trafficking, when offered or sold on the streets.
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society > trade and finance > selling > selling or sale of specific things > [adverb] > illicit trafficking
on (also upon) the street(s)1979
1979 Guardian 30 Oct. 8/5 We have either an extremely successful therapeutic service, or people are obtaining the drugs which they want ‘on the street’.
2005 Guardian 15 Nov. i. 3/1 Police chiefs and the government have commissioned separate studies into methamphetamine, or crystal meth, known on the street as ‘ice’, ‘meth’ ‘Tina’ and ‘Nazi crank’.
(c) colloquial. Out of work, unemployed.
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society > occupation and work > lack of work > [adjective] > not working or unemployed
servicelessc1450
unlabouredc1450
masterless1471
unwrought1550
unplaced1558
labourless1576
flag-fallen1609
unlabouring1619
disemployed1651
hireless1651
unengaged1654
unemployed1667
unworking1696
untoiling1748
workless1758
occupationless1822
placeless1828
out of work1833
non-working1841
unhired1852
jobless1862
out of (or in) collar1862
non-employed1876
spare1919
on the beach1923
in dry dock1927
off-the-job1950
on (also upon) the street(s)1980
unwaged1981
1980 J. Wainwright Venus Fly-trap 12 It's my living, too... If I upset that crowd, I could be on the street.
1993 D. Coyle Hardball iv. iv. 178 There was an increasing possibility that the management would be ousted. ‘It's tough to tell what all that could mean’, Bill said. ‘But if they clean house, I could be on the street’.
P5. the man in the street (also the man on the street): the ordinary or average man (or, in extended use, person), esp. as distinguished from the expert or specialist. Similarly the woman in the street. Also attributive (usually hyphenated).
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > person > man > [noun] > ordinary or average man
Richard Roe1593
Tom Stiles1681
John Doe1756
the man in the street1831
the next man1848
Everyman1901
the man on the Clapham omnibus1903
slob1910
John Citizen1918
average Joe1940
Joe Blow1941
Joe Public1942
Joe Doakes1943
Joe Soap1943
Joe Bloggs1969
Joe Sixpack1972
everyguy1976
the world > people > person > woman > [noun] > ordinary or average woman
the woman in the street1831
Everywoman1903
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > one of the common people
Jackc1390
fellowa1400
commonerc1400
populara1525
plebeianc1550
ungentle1562
Tom Tiler1582
roturier1586
vulgarity1646
little man1707
pleb1795
man of the people1799
the man in the street1831
snob1831
man1860
oickman1925
1770 Appeal to Public on Behalf S. Vaughan 83 He..supposed the noble duke at the head of the treasury..was something different from a man in the street.
1795 Trial J. H. Tooke 379 The Judges upon the Bench have no more right to transgress it [sc. a statute] than any man in the street.]
1831 C. C. F. Greville Mem. 22 Mar. (1874) II. 131 The other [side affirms] that the King will not consent to it, knowing, as ‘the man in the street’ (as we call him at Newmarket) always does, the greatest secrets of kings.
1854 R. W. Emerson Eloquence in Wks. (1906) III. 192 The speech of the man in the street is invariably strong, nor can you mend it by making it what you call parliamentary.
1898 J. E. C. Bodley France II. iii. v. 259 It is the man in the street and the democracy generally that the fall of a Ministry fails to move.
1900 A. M. Fairbairn in Examiner 21 June 327/2 The man in the street..may be a very excellent person, but his very ordinariness puts a long way between him and an ample and distinguished manhood.
1926 J. Galsworthy Silver Spoon iii. xi. 305 She had the political cynicism of the woman in the street.
1928 Amer. Speech 4 134 The American newspaper man..speaks a patois bewildering to the man on the street.
1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio vii. 130 A sort of convention has arisen whereby ‘man-in-the-street’ interviews are cut together by simple editing.
1973 Observer 4 Feb. (Colour Suppl.) 15/4 He really wanted to please the man on the street and the man on the street knew it.
2003 S. Brown Free Gift Inside! 41 Those who purport to speak on behalf of the customer, the ordinary Joe, the regular gal, the man in the street.
P6.
a. the length of a street: (used as the type of) a considerable or great length or distance.
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1860 A. Robins Miriam May (ed. 3) xii. 262 I could go, were I so minded, and write all Lord Diskount had so written, and more like to it by the length of a street.
1893 Kennel Gaz. Aug. 213/2 Kitty of Coleshill was just the best of the bunch [of setters], but there was not the length of a street between her and Sister Gabrielle.
1956 Times 21 July 7 It was emphatically a perfectly fair course... We won the event ‘by the length of a street’, and none of our horses fell.
2002 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 1 Sept. (Sport section) 12 Leicester lost their opening fixture last season and still won their fourth straight title by the length of a street.
b. not to be in the same street (with or as): to be far behind in a race or competition, to be far inferior to.
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1883 M. E. Kennard Right Sort xx Nevertheless, though not in the same street with King Olaf, it won't do to estimate Singing Bird's chance too lightly.
1912 Throne 7 Aug. 227/1 The race will be over by the time these notes appear in print, but..I do not think Pinks will finish in the same street as the holder.
1932 Times 8 Aug. 12 Barnaby's tune..may be a ‘feeble tune’ and not in the same street as Vaughan Williams's, yet I venture to think that the vast majority..approved the choice of the older tune for this particular occasion.
2000 Mirror (Nexis) 26 Oct. 66 The only guy I've come across who even comes close to matching Flintoff's power was the South African Adrian Kuiper, but even he wasn't in the same street as Freddie.
c. streets ahead (also better): far ahead of someone or something, far superior.
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1885 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 10 Oct. 6/6 M J Hayes..won streets ahead of a very weak opposition.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 1 Feb. 6/3 The English are better photographers than the Americans, but as regards mechanical ingenuity..the latter are streets ahead.
1911 Times 22 Apr. 8 In the matter of nutriment Manitobas were ‘streets’ ahead of any flour that could be produced from English wheat.
1958 Times 27 Oct. 4 His distribution was streets better than that of Greenwood, who was always in trouble.
2005 Daily Tel. 27 Oct. b 5 The company [sc. Toyota] is streets ahead of GM on profitability.
d. by a street: by a wide margin (originally of a sporting victory).
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > to a great extent or by far
great quantityc1330
far forthly1362
by farc1380
well awayc1390
by half?a1400
by mucha1450
far (and) away1546
by a great sort1579
to stand head and shoulders abovea1683
(by) a long way1741
by a jugful1831
by all odds1832
by a long, damn, etc., sight1834
out and away1834
(by) a long chalk1835
by chalks1835
by long chalks1835
by a street1886
a whole lot1886
1886 City of London School Mag. 10 166 [Monroe's] best performance was the Quarter Mile under fourteen, which he ‘won by a street’.
1896 Fores's Sporting Notes 13 4 ‘Won by a street,’ repeated Dick, thoughtfully... ‘Well, I'll buy him, then, and if he can't win the Grand Annual, I shall be very much astonished.’
1952 Times 13 Aug. 2 Compton fought the spin of Laker..with all the skill and experience at his command... Had Compton gone Surrey would have been home by a street.
1982 Age Monthly Rev. (Melbourne) Mar. 11/3 Any label embracing such a wide range of usage is too wide by a street.
2000 M. Beaumont e 165 They'd done a campaign for 7UP... It was the best thing they had by a street.
P7. to take to the streets: to assemble in a public place in order to engage in a political revolt or protest.
ΚΠ
1883 A. Palmer Oration 17 When the French revolutionists of 1792 took to the streets, they meant to change..the organic structure of their government.
1938 G. Hicks I like Amer. iv. 61 Neither the press nor the radio is open to the poor, and when they take to the streets they are met with clubs.
1982 Listener 23 Dec. 5/3 People had begun to take to the streets, defying martial law, tear-gas, water-cannon and bullets.
2006 Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City) (Nexis) 3 Apr. The..point that made the students take to the streets was hearing..politicians wanting to pass laws that labeled them as felons.
P8. to be up (down, †in) one's street: to be well suited to one's tastes, interests, or abilities (cf. to be (right) up (also down) one's alley at alley n.1 Phrases).
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > be suitable, appropriate, or suit [verb (intransitive)] > suit a person
to sit loose1591
to be up (down, in) one's street1903
to be (right) up (also down) one's alley1922
to meet up with1972
1903 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VII. i. 10/1 Street.., a capacity, a method; a line: e.g. ‘That's not in my street’ = ‘I am not concerned’ or ‘That's not my way of doing,’ etc.
1929 Publishers' Weekly 21 Dec. 2813/2 A great many of the books published today are, as the saying is, right up her street.
1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited ii. iv. 259 She is a jolly attractive girl, the sort of girl any chap would be glad to have—artistic, too, just down your street.
1960 L. Cooper Accomplices i. vi. 55 John Pollard got me the job and..I loved it... It was right up my street.
1977 It May 28/1 If you like Miles Davis's ‘In a Silent Way’ then Don Cherry has a new release which is just up your street.
2001 M. Blake 24 Karat Schmooze xiv. 150 What I have in mind is right up your street. Usual hidden cameras, big exposé.
P9. to play (also work) both sides of the street (originally and chiefly U.S.): to ally oneself with both sides in a competition or conflict, to behave inconsistently and opportunistically.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > be inconstant [verb (intransitive)] > temporize or trim
to serve the time (also times)?1544
temporize1555
to turn the cat in the pan1622
trim1687
to sail with every (shift of) wind1710
to play (also work) both sides of the street1909
1909 Nevada State Jrnl. 17 Aug. 4/2 Trades and frame-ups that give all the spoils to the schemers who work both sides of the street, with a sort of alternating loyalty.
1938 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Sept. 1/2 Our friends of the New Deal have the devil's own nerve when it comes to working both sides of the street.
1951 E. Kefauver Crime in Amer. xvii. 202 He played both sides of the street and made contributions to candidates of both major parties.
1969 Listener 13 Feb. 196/3 Amnesty International has to play both sides of the political street in seeking to obtain the release of political prisoners.
2001 N.Y. Times 1 July iv. 12/1 Smugglers and brokers..have thrived for years by working both sides of the street, doing deals not just with..warlords and criminal groups but with legitimate governments as well.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a. With the senses ‘of or relating to the streets’, ‘exercising a trade or occupation in the streets’, ‘transacted, carried on, or taking place in the streets’.
street accident n.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > collision or accident
car accident1834
street accident1835
accident1836
smash-up1856
car crash1877
car wreck1877
motor accident1910
wreck1912
crash1917
rollover1955
prang1959
shunt1959
1835 New Monthly Mag. Jan. 42 The disregard of human life in street-accidents seems to be vastly greater in London than in Paris.
1892 R. Kipling Many Inventions (1893) 164 I heard Keller saying, as though he were watching a street accident, ‘Give him air. For God's sake, give him air.’
1993 F. Collymore Rewards & Chrysanthemums 109 Well, we were talking of this, that and t'other, and he told me of this poor woman who'd been in a street accident in Brooklyn.
street art n.
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1852 G. A. Sala in Househ. Words 17 Jan. 400/1 Whole hosts of street arts and street artists are among the things departed. Where is the dancing bear..? Where the tight-rope dancers? the performers on stilts?
1972 Van Nuys Valley (Calif.) News 24 Aug. 44 Psychologist sees creative aspects in street art. People who scrawl graffiti on construction site fences.
2007 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 26 June 32 The biggest street arts festival in the UK boasts a glorious five-day programme of..street entertainment, circus, music and dance.
street artist n.
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1850 Morning Chron. 13 June 5/2 I now come to the street artists. These include the artists in coloured chalks upon the pavements, the black-profile cutters, and the blind paper-cutters.
1891 Scribner's Mag. Jan. 30/2 The street-artist, surrounded by admirers, constructs pictures and writes Chinese mottoes on the earth with handfuls of tinted sand.
1994 Toronto Life Aug. 18/2 Chalk art, jugglers, buskers and other street artists perform in this free outdoor fair.
street band n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band > type of
waits1298
consort1587
wait player1610
wind music1650
the fiddles1676
military band1775
German band1819
street band1826
brass band1834
promenade band1836
horn-band1849
pipe band1867
wind-band1876
Hungarian band1882
jazz band1916
jazz orchestra1916
big band1919
road band1922
Schrammel quartet1924
showband1926
spasm band1926
dance-band1927
marching band1930
name band1932
ork1933
silver band1933
sweet band1935
Schrammel orchestra1938
pop band1942
jug band1946
steel band1949
rehearsal band1957
skiffle band1957
ghost band1962
support band1969
support group1969
scratch band1982
1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 19 Pref. p. xxxii Hark! exquisite music! Our street-bands are indeed wondrously executive.
1977 New Statesman 2 Sept. 292/1 The traditional Trinidadian street bands and dancers.
1999 S. Broughton et al. World Music: Rough Guide I. iii. 523/1 But that still doesn't explain why the musicians who accompany the travelling players..so puzzlingly resemble Mexican street bands.
street battle n.
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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > battle or a battle > street battle
street battle1795
1795 D. Campbell Journey over Land to India xxxii. 56 I will venture to say that a street battle ‘à la Turque’ is one of the most ludicrous exhibitions in the world.
1936 New Yorker 7 Mar. 29/1 In 1923..the Commissioner..in a street battle routed the brownshirts.
1978 ‘A. Stuart’ Vicious Circles 21 Last night's riots in Milan where fascists had fought communists in a running street battle.
2001 Police Rev. 26 Oct. 25/1 If you walk down Whitechapel's Cable Street, you'll see the famous 1986 mural to the 1936 street battle.
street beggar n.
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1681 Bp. G. Burnet Life & Death M. Hale 149 When he was in Town, he dealt his Charities very liberally, even among the Street-Beggars.
1713 Guardian 26 Aug. 2/1 Our very Street Beggars are not without their peculiar Oddities.
1897 F. Moss Amer. Metropolis II. vii. 393 A party of petty thieves and ‘pan-handlers’ (able-bodied street beggars), went into the ‘Morgue’.
1996 F. McCourt Angela's Ashes (1997) ix. 265 She's ashamed..to go and ask for it [sc. public assistance]. It means you're..one level above tinkers, knackers and street beggars in general.
street beggary n.
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a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 304 That street-beggery, which is become a Calling.
1838 Times 20 Nov. 4/4 The extensive practice of street-beggary, with its attendant frauds.
1913 W. D. Howells Familiar Spanish Trav. vi. 111 The blind abound everywhere in Spain in that profession of street beggary which I always encouraged, believing as I do that comfort in this unbalanced world cannot be too constantly reminded of misery.
2004 Pakistan Newswire (Nexis) 9 Sept. The professional beggars have adopted street beggary as a source of livelihood.
street bookie n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > book-making > book-maker
commission agent1798
flash-man1812
bookmaker1833
commissioner1851
ring man1857
metallician1861
street bookmaker1867
bookie1877
book1881
knight of the pencil1885
handbook man1894
street bookie1911
turf accountant1915
listman1922
1911 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Daily Press 27 Feb. 6/3 My friend found he had been presented with a couple of coppers wrapped in a piece of paper inscribed with the names of three horses... He had evidently been mistaken for some street bookie.
1939 John o' London's Weekly 2 June 320/2 He gets himself..into minor social difficulties, finding himself one day..in the police cells in Kennington, accused of being a street-bookie.
1993 Independent on Sunday 8 Aug. 18/6 He used to be a street bookie before it was made legal in 1961.
street bookmaker n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > book-making > book-maker
commission agent1798
flash-man1812
bookmaker1833
commissioner1851
ring man1857
metallician1861
street bookmaker1867
bookie1877
book1881
knight of the pencil1885
handbook man1894
street bookie1911
turf accountant1915
listman1922
1867 Times 30 May 14/2 What a solemn mockery of justice it is to hunt down the street bookmaker..who could..recite by the hour true stories of roguery equal to any of his own.
1939 H. Hodge Cab, Sir? xvi. 238 We [sc. cabmen] have come to look on the police-court dock as a normal trade risk—just as street-bookmakers and prostitutes do.
2003 Oxf. Encycl. Econ. Hist. (Electronic ed.) at Gambling Cash betting shops had been closed by law in England in 1853, but illegal off-track cash betting with ‘street bookmakers’ continued on a wide scale.
street-bookmaking n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > book-making
bookmaking1824
handbooking1898
street-bookmaking1907
1907 Times 24 June 3/5 Patrick McCarthy, of Lambeth, brother-in-law of Platt, testified that he engaged in street bookmaking with him.
1997 Scotsman 13 June 19 Some Glasgow-Irish were indeed rich, but mainly through the licensed trade, or property,..or street bookmaking.
street brawl n.
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1823 Nic-nac 13 Sept. 335 While stationed with his regiment at Newcastle, he had the misfortune, one evening, to get involved in a street brawl with some persons of the lower order.
2001 N.Y. Times 8 Jan. d9/1 Two fighters leaned into each other and exchanged punches so violently that the sparring session could have been mistaken for a street brawl.
street clothes n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > for specific purpose > going out
thing1605
outdoor things1847
street clothes1852
outer1904
1852 Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 13 Dec. The young whig entered upon the work [sc. splitting wood] with spirit, wearing..his ordinary street clothes.
1908 M. E. Morgan How to dress Doll vii. 63 (heading) Dolly's street clothes. Here is Dolly dressed for a walk.
2005 L. Leblanc Pretty in Punk ii. 37 Such taboo items as bondage gear (rubber T-shirts, leather miniskirts..) meant to be worn as street clothes.
street crier n.
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1808 J. Bean Zeal without Innovation i. 5 Let us add to these..the thousands of our street criers; the almost incalculable number of artisans and manufacturers.
1847 C. J. Lever Knight of Gwynne xxxv With the sing-song intonation of a street-crier.
1953 Times 3 June 8 A memory of the centenary festival celebrations was recalled by the appearance at six o'clock of street criers..selling their wares.
2006 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 15 Oct. xiv. 1/2 Music pounds from storefronts, and street criers push through the crowd, shouting about cellphone deals.
street cry n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > offering for sale > crying of wares
street cry1630
cry1642
outcry1884
1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. xxx. 75 (heading) Vpon hearing of the street cryes in London.
1858 Punch 24 103 The value of the houses..is daily diminishing by reason of the Street Cries, which render the place uninhabitable.
1995 M. Lewis Singapore: Rough Guide 204/1 The itinerant sellers of seaweed jelly, water, vegetables, soup, fruit, and cooked fish, whose unintelligible street cries are heard above the din.
street culture n.
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1853 G. A. Sala in Househ. Words 15 Oct. 161/2 Think..what a hazardous, critical, dangerous nature this street culture is.
1967 Trans-action Apr. 5/1 Street culture exists in every low income ghetto. It is shared by the hustling elements of the poor, whatever their nationality or color.
2007 Building Design (Nexis) 2 Sept. 2 Visitors to the UK don't..come for the food. They come because of our rich culture and our vibrant street culture.
street decoration n.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > street decoration
street decoration1846
society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > [noun] > other tokens of
palmOE
peal1509
illumination1797
feu de joie1801
confetti1815
street decoration1846
piñata1868
Venetian mast1883
serpentin1894
ticker tape1902
1846 D. R. Hay First Princ. Symmetrical Beauty 8 To replace in our streets the expensive ugliness of our street decoration.
1969 Guardian 18 Dec. 9/1 There are fewer street decorations..store displays are less lavish.
2007 Post Mag. (Nexis) 12 July 35 A Floodlighting employee was dismantling street decorations from an elevated bucket and boom fixed to a parked lorry.
street entertainer n.
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1883 Times 17 May 7/4 Pavements are crowded; hawkers and street entertainers, dodging the police, bewilder quiet country people by their din.
2008 South Wales Echo (Nexis) 21 Feb. 28 The authority intends to build a bouncy castle, Punch and Judy show and an area for street entertainers.
street entertainment n.
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1827 W. Hone Every-day Bk. II. 1331 The ‘common people’, as they are called, require a new species of street entertainment and a new literature.
2007 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 26 June 32 The biggest street arts festival in the UK boasts a glorious five-day programme of..street entertainment, circus, music and dance.
street fair n.
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society > leisure > social event > large or public event > [noun] > fair
fair?a1300
kermis1577
playa1586
gaff1753
market fair1776
street fair1854
1854 New Monthly Mag. 102 478 Street fairs have passed away, but not without leaving a record behind.
1872 B. Jerrold London xix. 158 These street-fairs are held chiefly on Saturday nights and Sunday mornings.
1982 ‘E. McBain’ Beauty & Beast viii. 130 Calusa's street fairs during..March and April, when the tourists were thickest.
2002 Time Out N.Y. 3 Oct. 166/2 You..can chill out at the street fair in front of the cybercafé on Sunday.
street game n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > street game
street game1829
1829 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 578/1 I saw the other day a street-game of the Roman boys, strongly characteristic of Roman life and feeling.
1890 Public Ledger (Philadelphia) 9 Dec. 6/5 Mr. Stewart Culin..recently delivered a lecture in Brooklyn, on children's street games.
1969 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games p. vi There is no town or city known to us where street games do not flourish.
2007 U.S. News & World Rep. 26 Mar. 45/3 [Dominican] children hone their skills with street games like vitilla, in which the batter tries to hit a water bottle cap with a broomstick.
street gang n.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [noun] > gang > types of
street gang1813
gashouse gang1895
rat pack1950
1813 Parl. Reg. 1812–13 I. 292 He..said it was a gross misrepresentation to affirm, that the violence of the street gangs in their robberies was owing to the repeal of a law already alluded to.
1927 F. M. Thrasher Gang iv. xxi. 453 The political boss..has usually received valuable training for politics in a street gang from which he has ultimately been graduated.
1979 Amer. Speech 1976 51 61 Their speech is closer to standard than is that of the adolescent street-gang members.
2006 Sydney Morning Herald 3 Apr. (Guide section) 22/2 Held hostage by a street gang, the daughter of a prominent public servant finds herself embroiled in a sub-culture that is raw, violent and appealing.
street hawker n.
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1773 F. Gentleman Introd. Shakespeare's Plays 56 Some unexperienced attempters at oratory..bawl as loud as street hawkers.
1841 Times 12 Nov. 4 If any retiring fruit-seller were now proposing to entrust him with the management of a respectable apple-stall, the suggestion..would be scouted by the humblest street-hawkers in the kingdom.
1950 J. Lait & L. Mortimer Chicago: Confidential i. v. 61 Street-hawkers sell guns openly at $20.
2004 D. Dalton Rough Guide Philippines 346 Durian is available in most restaurants and you can also buy it from street hawkers.
street language n.
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1777 H. L. Piozzi Diary 28 May in Thraliana (1951) I. 48 I will give one Instance of his Skill in our low Street Language.
1818 Q. Rev. Sept. 111 There was an old woman who kept a night-school..for the sole purpose of teaching them [sc. children] the street language.
2006 Daily Tel. 1 Nov. 15/3 A ‘shotty’—street language for a shot gun.
street life n.
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1846 J. F. Cooper Redskins II. 54 The plainness of street life, compared to that within doors.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 301/1 This is a trade associated with street-life rather than forming an integrant part of it.
1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 13 Feb. ii. 1 In ‘Mean Streets’, Mr. Scorsese created a dark, vital portrait of street life on the Lower East Side.
2005 A. Masters Stuart v. 48 On average, it takes nine years for a person..to become homeless. It then takes four weeks..to settle into street life and begin to adapt irrevocably.
street market n.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > street market
street market1833
thieves' market1873
flea market1922
1833 D. Chambers Minor Antiq. Edinb. 133 The statute granted by James III. in 1477, for the street markets.
1922 V. Woolf Jacob's Room viii. 157 The street market in Soho is fierce with light.
2005 Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 4 Feb. (Friday Suppl.) 20/4 In the street market, you can find anything from French pastries to foam mattresses covered in luminous prints.
street meeting n.
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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > others
aleOE
carola1300
dinnerc1425
love-feast1622
family party1735
aleingc1736
street meeting1820
sausage party1848
church social1862
funfest1904
mixer1916
love-in1967
potlatch1974
raft-up1977
crafternoon1978
geekfest1987
1820 J. Luccock Notes on Rio de Janeiro iv. 103 There were in the crowd a few respectable-looking men [sc. lawyers], but they were indeed a small proportion; the leading characters of the profession did not find it necessary to attend these street meetings.
1933 ‘G. Orwell’ Down & Out xxv. 183 There were street meetings... In the East India Dock Road the Salvation Army were holding a service.
2000 Times of India (Nexis) 19 June It was the Friday street meeting arranged by some small-time leaders which proved like a breath of fresh air.
street merchant n.
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1854 New Monthly Mag. Mar. 315 Portable ginger-beer sellers, oyster men press on, or stand at the corners of the street, but do not offer their wares noisily, like the street merchants of Paris.
1967 ‘T. Wells’ Dead by Light of Moon xiii. 126 A street merchant is a con artist who pretends to sell stolen goods.
2004 Technol. Decisions (Nexis) Mar. 2 This topic reminds me of a friend who often visits China and, for fun, bargains with street merchants there.
street mob n.
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1728 D. Defoe Syst. Magick (new ed.) ii. v. 342 The..terrible Clamours of the Street Mobs, and all the..Parties, Rabbles, Riots, and Rebellions.
1865 Catholic World Sept. 727/2 He was caught, apparently by a street-mob.
2002 K. Henderson Slovakia iv. 127 Slovak democracy was never destabilised by rampaging street mobs.
street music n.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > street performance > [noun]
street music1770
busking1897
street singing1958
1770 C. Burney Jrnl. 26 July in Music, Men & Manners France & Italy (1969) 65 It was excellent street music.
1841 C. Knight London I. 141 De la Serre..is enthusiastic in his praises of the street music of London.
1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) xi. 198 The street music..was strictly for panhandling—stray accordion players..and half-crazed women with cracked voices.
2001 N.Y. Times 11 Feb. ii. 29/4 Baile funk is one of the first new genres of electronic dance music to have become important street music outside of North America and Europe.
street musician n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > street musician
street musician1784
music-grinder1803
hand organist1805
busker1851
griddler1859
trap-drummer1903
jogah1928
1784 T. Robertson Inq. Fine Arts i. iii. 236 I remember to have met with a band of Street Musicians at Aix la Chapelle, who employed a dog to bark between the Pieces.
1839 Act 2 & 3 Victoria c. 47 §57 To require any Street Musician to depart from the Neighbourhood of the House.
1988 E. White Beautiful Room is Empty (1989) vii. 142 The sound of voices, of street musicians, rang off the brick walls of tenements.
2005 Time Out N.Y. 24 Nov. 58/2 Sidewalks lining Broadway will host live bands, street musicians, jugglers and stilt-walkers.
street noise n.
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1707 T. D'Urfey in H. Playford Wit & Mirth (new ed.) III. 31 We that breathing the Country Air, Hear no Street noise nor such howling.
1841 C. Knight London I. 129 Street noises. ‘The Silent Woman’..presents to us a more vivid picture than can elsewhere be found of the characteristic noises of the streets of London more than two centuries ago.
1961 A. Wilson Old Men at Zoo (1964) 256 I could hear outside the ordinary street noises of the day.
2002 Nat. Home July 41/1 Double-pane windows..not only conserve energy but also block out street noise.
street orator n.
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1782 Ann. Reg. 1780 ii. Characters 23/1 At Rome, those street-orators sometimes entertain their audience with interesting passages of real history.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 213/1 The class of street-orators, known in these days as ‘patterers’, and formerly termed ‘mountebanks’.
1933 Times 17 Feb. 13 All the world is asking the question..whether the street orator [sc. Hitler] will become an efficient ruler.
2000 Church Times 10 Mar. 14/1 Leading figures of the ruling élite like Gladstone, and the stirrers of the demos like the numerous no-popery street orators, shared a common horror of the Roman Catholic Church.
street organ n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > musical box > [noun] > barrel-organ
hand organ1721
street organ1769
barrel organ1772
music box1773
grinding-organ1801
panharmonicon1811
flute-organ1828
orchestrino1838
orchestrion1838
organ1841
piano organ1842
autophone1850
grind-organ1888
1769 ‘Junius’ in Interesting Lett. 47 He perceives no difference in the musical expression of a Giardini, and that of a croaking street organ.
1849 E. Ruskin Let. 28 Oct. in Effie in Venice (1965) 54 This Milan is a most wonderful place for street organs.
1964 G. Mitchell Death of Delft Blue i. 15 If you go there [i.e. to Amsterdam], be sure to look out for the street organs, the barrel-organs, you know.
2006 Birmingham Mail (Nexis) 18 Dec. 13 Step into Christmas past with some old-time entertainment including toe-tapping tunes from bell ringers, carol singers, street organs and a brass band.
street party n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > other parties
play-party1796
tail1837
surprise-party1840
street party1845
costume party1850
pound party1869
all-nighter1870
neighbourhood party1870
simcha1874
ceilidh1875
studio party1875
pounding1883
house party1885
private function1888
shower1893
kitchen shower1896
kitchen evening1902
bottle party1903
pyjama party1910
block party1919
house party1923
after-party1943
slumber party1949
office party1950
freeload1952
hukilau1954
BYOB1959
pot party1959
bush party1962
BYO1965
wrap party1978
bop1982
warehouse party1988
rave1989
1845 Rome: Eccl. & Social Life iv. 59 German and French ladies, in consequence of invitations to such street parties [in Rome], have asked advice of Romish clergy, and the answer has always been the same, that there was not the slightest cause for disquiet or alarm.
1953 Times 3 June 8/1 The most popular events were the street parties. In some 30 or 40 streets the inhabitants had clubbed together to hold parties, starting, as a rule, with tea for the children.
2005 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 13 Nov. 11/1 Sue Behan was planning a street party to celebrate Christmas with her neighbours.
street patrol n.
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman > who patrols > specific duty of
street patrol1786
1786 Outl. Plan for Patroling City of London 20 Within the Town Fire Arms may be thought improper,..wherefore the Street Patrol may be armed with a stout Ash Pole.
1850 Jrnl. Stat. Soc. 13 226 An additional force of 68 men, 32 of whom were employed during the day-time in the general duties of a street patrol.
1976 Guardian 12 Apr. 20/7 All good police officers know that the street patrol on foot..is the classic champion over the scourge of street crime.
2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Dec. iv. 13/6 When Bravo Company troops roll out of the rack at 2 a.m. for street patrols, they walk the broad boulevards and narrow alleyways spread out as if they're walking a jungle trail.
street performance n.
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1832 S. Austin tr. H. L. H. von Pückler-Muskau Tour German Prince III. vi. 130 Another sort of street performance [Ger. Straßenspiel],—a genuine national comedy..afforded me great amusement from my window... The hero of this drama is Punch.
1922 Times 21 Jan. 7/2 A Cardiff street performance by four men and a monkey.
2007 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 17 May 20 Bands, strolling performers, impromptu street performance, sky-high bicycles, [etc.].
street performer n.
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1834 My Daughter's Bk. 182 Extracting charitable pence from the pockets of the public, for the benefit of a street performer.
1920 Times 3 Aug. 10/4 The crowd..was entertained by dozens of street performers, who conjured, sang, danced.
2003 R. Scollon & S. Wong Scollon Disc. in Place iv. 82 A street performer who stands as a statue until someone takes the action of donating money in his collection box.
street photographer n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographer > [noun] > types in general
portraitist1857
street photographer1859
mugfaker1880
Kodaker1890
snap-shooter1890
snapshottist1891
snapshotter1899
telephotographer1899
snapper1910
documentarian1951
smudger1961
smudge1968
pictorialist1971
1859 Photogr. Jrnl. 9 Apr. 252/2 The public eye is not as yet sufficiently familiarized with the sight of street photographers, and the erection of a camera soon obtains for you a cortége as numerous..as if you were the proud proprietor of a Punch-and-Judy establishment.
1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. vi. 132 Here..is a group taken by a street photographer.
2001 New Yorker 28 May 34/3 Sandler is an accomplished street photographer, and..he builds atmosphere by framing his subjects against the oversized fashion ads.
street photography n.
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1858 Jrnl. Photogr. Soc. 21 Oct. 48/1 Mr. Campbell has evidently seen nothing but street photography. He takes a sixpenny positive, and gravely criticizes it by the side of a Reynolds.
1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 204/2 Those living at the west-end of London have but little idea of the number of persons who gain a livelihood by street photography.
1976 Art Jrnl. 36 131/1 Man Ray did make some attempts at street photography; the George Eastman House Collection has two of his street scenes.
2003 New Yorker 7 July 15/3 He has yet to be discovered here other than by hard-core aficionados of street photography.
street piano n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > pianoforte > types of piano
grand pianoforte1784
square pianoforte1787
grand piano1795
cottage pianoforte1816
cottage piano1824
table piano1827
table pianoforte1827
tin kettle1827
grand1830
piccolo1831
Broadwood1832
semi-grand1835
pianino1848
cottage1850
square piano1853
street piano1855
upright1860
pianette1862
digitorium1866
Steinway1875
baby grand1879
square1882
tin pan1882
honky-tonk piano1934
minipiano1934
spinet1936
prepared piano1940
ravalement1959
rinky-tink1961
miniature1974
Mozart piano1980
1855 Manitowoc (Wisconsin) Tribune 28 June 1/5 Drat that tune, which everywhere, On street piano tinkles.
1903 Cosmopolitan Sept. 484/2 Street-pianos plunk away unweariedly.
1978 L. Deighton SS-GB xix. 166 Douglas stopped to give a penny to an old man at the handle of a street piano.
1991 P. Gammond Oxf. Compan. to Pop. Music 553/1 Street pianos are often referred to as barrel organs.
street preacher n.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun] > open-air
field preacher1678
street preacher1769
1769 B. Pye Five Lett. i. 10 Our prudent Leaders do not send out Field-Preachers, and Street-Preachers, to bawl down their Absurdities.
1878 Golden Hours Feb. 85/2 [She] had paused for a moment to listen to the words of the street preacher.
1977 J. Gillis Killers of Starfish (1979) v. 35 He pretended he was a street preacher once and people put pennies and dimes in his hat to save the sinners.
2004 New Yorker 24 May 49/1 He's arrested for fighting with a street preacher.
street riot n.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] > a disturbance or riot > types of
street riot1703
cattle-racket1847
race riot1880
1703 D. Defoe Shortest Way to Peace & Union in True Coll. Writings 451 Revolutions would be as frequent as Insurrections; and Mobbing our Governors, be as familiar as a Street Riot.
1877 A. H. Beesly Gracchi, Marius & Sulla xiv. 178 Sulla..had no notion of allowing street-riots again.
1980 L. St. Clair Obsessions i. 16 Perhaps there would be no more street riots and shooting.
2001 Independent 8 Feb. (Thursday Review section) 3/1 The grim likelihood now, as Mr Arafat senses international sympathy swinging his way, is for more violence, street riots and even suicide bombings.
street rioter n.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] > one who creates a disturbance or rioter > types of
meal-mobber1778
street rioter1830
scuttler1867
1830 Times 10 Nov. 2/6 The Duke of Wellington is unpopular... It is that unhappy note of opposition to reform which he sounded. But how are the street rioters affected by this?
1900 R. Kipling Let. 24 July in C. E. Carrington Rudyard Kipling (1955) xiii. 314 We advanced against 'em [sc. the Boers] as if they were street-rioters that we didn't want to hurt.
1991 J. A. Phelps Chappie xxvii. 305 Chappie..treated street rioters with slashing scorn (‘I think about ninety percent of them are professional cowards’).
street robber n.
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1728 Street-robberies, Consider'd 25 Shoplifters, House-breakers and Street-Robbers.
1831 G. Henson Civil Hist. Framework-knitters iv. 254 A ramp is the term generally confined to a street robber, who knocks his victim down and robs him in the confusion.
1919 Times 29 Oct. 13 [In the 18th century] the danger was from footpads and street robbers; now it is from traffic.
2005 B. Sanders Youth Crime & Youth Culture viii. 169 Even though both the very old and the very young might be seen as ‘easy pickings’ by a street robber, these young people felt they should not rob them.
street robbery n.
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1728 Street-robberies, Consider'd 59 Another Reason of the Frequency of Street Robberies, is the Remisness or Corruption of the Watch.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xvi. 20 It is no wonder that..street robberies, often accompanied by cruel wounds, and not unfrequently by loss of life, should have been of nightly occurrence.
1993 Sun (Baltimore) 15 Aug. b1/4 There has been an upswing of commercial and street robberies.
street scuffler n.
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1772 T. Nugent tr. P. J. Grosley Tour to London I. 87 The state of nature, a state with which the street-scufflers of London are closely connected.
1999 Mirror (Nexis) 14 Dec. (Sport section), 46 Boxing catapults street scufflers to stardom.
street seller n.
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1827 W. Hone Table Bk. I. 685 The man..was a street seller of hobbyhorses.
1922 Times 18 May 7 Behind the street-seller [of cocaine] was the smuggler, who brought the drug from Germany, Holland, or other parts of the Continent.
2004 Independent 11 Nov. (Review section) 13 The last Franck Muller I bought was a knock-off from a street seller in Milan.
street shoe n.
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1873 Harper’s Bazar 20 Dec. 803/3 Dull unpolished kid is chosen for street shoes, and the favorite shape remains the buttoned boot.
1889 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 3 June The most stylish street shoe then was a low, heelless gaiter, laced on the inside of the foot.
1950 N.Y. Times 17 Aug. 33/5 Billy disclosed that he had been playing throughout the tournament in his street shoes. His golf shoes were missing in transit.
1988 P. Matthiessen Lumumba Lives in On River Styx (1990) 179 He makes his way down along the brook, his street shoes slipping on the aqueous green and sunshined leaves.
2002 Business Week 10 June 12/4 If Nike can penetrate the global soccer-shoe market, it can then promote spin-offs such as soccer clothes and street shoes.
street shrine n.
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1828 W. M. Kinsey Portugal Illustr. iii. 90 The whole distance..is every night left in utter darkness, save the glimmering light from some street-shrine.
1911 J. Ward Rom. Era Brit. vii. 119 The Pompeian street shrines were as varied as the domestic.
1997 Wanderlust June 21/3 The old lady bent double praying alone in the small street shrine, oblivious to the hideous silver pachinko [sc. pinball] parlour overshadowing her.
street singer n.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > street performance > [noun] > performer
street singer1789
organ-grinder1792
busker1851
1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music III. 64 It seems to have been the wish of illiterate and furious reformers, that all religious offices should be performed by Field-preachers and Street-singers.
1841 C. Knight London I. 144 The street-singers of Paris.
1933 J. Galsworthy One More River vi. 48 He walked, threading his way through the streams of traffic, with the melancholy howling of street-singers in his ear.
2000 Hist. Today Jan. 37/1 In the streets she worked as a coster and as a street singer and barrel organ grinder.
street singing n.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > street performance > [adjective]
street singing1735
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > street performance > [noun]
street music1770
busking1897
street singing1958
1735 Persian Lett. Continued xxii. 129 Their [sc. German beggars'] street-singing is a Banter upon Religion.
1820 H. Matthews Diary of Invalid (ed. 2) viii. 244 Amongst the charms of an Italian evening, I ought to mention the street-singing and serenading.
1958 E. Routley Eng. Carol 228 Television probably accounts in part for the decline of street-singing.
1993 News Express 30 Aug. 1/3 Scialfa scuffled in New York during the '70s doing everything from street singing to leading her own band.
street slang n.
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1848 T. De Quincey Life & Adventures Goldsmith in N. Brit. Rev. May 194 He must study their sympathies, must assume them, must give them back. In our days, he must give them back even their own street slang.
1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture i. 10 His language was a combination of street slang and high-school intellect.
2006 N.Y. Times Mag. 22 Jan. 30/2 A cocktail known in street slang as ‘the 3V's’: Viread, Viagra and Valium.
street song n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > folk-song > street song
street song1612
moppie1949
1612 T. Heywood Apol. for Actors ii. sig. D2 The word Comedy is derived from the Greek Word Κoμoς, a Street, and ωδη, Cantus, a Song, a Street Song, as signifying there was ever Mirth in those Streets where Comedies most flourisht.
1800 Monthly Rev. 32 461 The revolution [in France] has hitherto given a ferocious turn to their vaudevilles, their street-songs; which are now all..breathing vengeance, blood, and desolation.
1959 W. R. Bird These are Maritimes x. 274 There were street songs brought out over the years from the old country.
1990 T. Christensen tr. C. Fuentes in Constancia & Other Stories 202 In Seville..when a pause is imposed by the street song..everyone disappears, and only the Virgin and the person who is singing to her remain.
street stall n.
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1847 C. Toulmin Partners for Life 20 I..picked up my knowledge of books at the street stalls, lingering over many a quaint volume.
1954 M. Stewart Madam, will you Talk? xi. 87 The street-stalls piled high with melons and beans and oranges and sleek purple aubergines.
2004 D. Dalton Rough Guide Philippines 408 A type of tortilla that you can pick up for a few pesos from one of the many street stalls.
street style n.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > style or quality of > specific
street style1821
1821 J. Hogg Jacobite Relics 2nd Ser. 338 [The song] is one rather of the street style.
1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 27/1 Jaunty street style, with vent plaits.
1983 Times 25 Oct. 10/1 Our eclectic, eccentric British street style is a fashion inspiration.
2007 Village Voice 7 Mar. 46/1 Like many graffiti artists,..she's discovered that..corporations will pay big bucks to add a dose of street style to their clothing, TV shows, and video games.
street theatre n.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > movable or temporary
scaffoldc1405
pageant1450
pegma1604
pageant car1803
street theatre1882
1882 Musical Times 23 61 The sculptor proposes that one of the young men present shall simulate Balducci in a pantomime about to be played on the stage of one of the street theatres.
1959 G. Wickham Early Eng. Stages I. iii. 51 Specially erected platforms..in market squares or other open spaces..are usually known by such names as ‘booth theatres’, théâtres de la foire, or simply ‘street theatres’.
1977 Spare Rib May 16/1 I'd like to do street theatre, but it's not that easy in a place like Sheffield.
2006 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 14 May (Seven Days section) 37/5 Murray's a dunderheid who, during a visit to his brother in London, signs up to take part in an interactive street theatre experience.
street trade n.
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1841 C. Knight London I. 139 Of the street trades that are past and forgotten, the smallcoal-man was one of the most remarkable.
1986 A. Ravetz Govt. of Space ii. 13 Some [of the proletariat] were sustained by..an amazing array of unregulated street trades, such as prostitution.
2001 D. Lehane Mystic River 283 There's some serious street trade there at night—you got regular hookers, transvestites.
street trader n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > street vendor
costermonger?1518
street vendor1840
street trader1845
coster1851
handseller1851
patterer1851
umbrella man1851
gutter-man1892
dragger1896
gutter-merchant1896
pitcher1896
pitchman1914
pitchwoman1927
barrow boy1939
fly-pitcher1965
mama put1979
1845 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 4 Index p. vii Street Traders.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 354/1 The word hand-seller is construed by the street-traders as meaning literally..a seller of things held or carried in the hand.
1870 D. J. Kirwan Palace & Hovel xxvi. 395 These dog-sellers are the keenest street-traders to be found in London.
1979 S. Brett Comedian Dies i. 17 [He] spoke with the brash confidence of an East End street-trader.
2005 Food & Trav. Feb. 80/2 ‘No, there is no problem between us,’ shrugs one Muslim street trader.
street trading n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > selling in street
street trading1848
1848 A. Prentice Tour in U.S. in Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. (1849) 17 Mar. 171/2 Irish labourers save a few pounds, enter into some small street-trading, ultimately take a store of one kind or another, and their sons become respectable.
1903 Act 3 Edward VII c. 45 §2 Any local authority may make byelaws with respect to street trading by persons under the age of sixteen.
1977 J. Thomson Case Closed viii. 99 They'd kept their street-trading licence and..they'd go round the local markets selling clothing.
1992 B. Coote Trade Trap viii. 91 Street trading, by which many poor people in Santo Domingo make a living, has been banned.
street vendor n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > street vendor
costermonger?1518
street vendor1840
street trader1845
coster1851
handseller1851
patterer1851
umbrella man1851
gutter-man1892
dragger1896
gutter-merchant1896
pitcher1896
pitchman1914
pitchwoman1927
barrow boy1939
fly-pitcher1965
mama put1979
1840 J. W. Loudon Instr. Gardening for Ladies vi. 150 Though so often mentioned by the street vendors, [the Hautbois strawberry] is in reality very seldom grown.
1872 B. Jerrold London ii. 23 Stopped by street vendors of all descriptions.
1978 N. Longmate Hungry Mills vii. 100 His heart went out to the inexperienced street-vendors he encountered.
2007 N.Y. Mag. 25 June 60/3 The NYPD officers who monitor street vendors.
street violence n.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > that takes place on the street
street violence1711
1711 D. Defoe Seasonable Caution to Gen. Assembly 15 I name this..to let us all see how Destructive Mobs and Street Violences have always been.
1852 N.-Y. Daily Times 5 June 2/3 This business of street violence, these knockings down and stabbings, and shootings..convert the city journal into something resembling a bulletin of a guerilla contest.
1977 Times 22 Jan. 4/4 The two days of street violence [in Cairo] which took more than 60 lives.
2003 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 21 Sept. i. 15/1 A theater program that targets ‘at risk’ teens, those with learning disabilities or in danger of falling prey to street violence.
street warfare n.
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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > [noun] > manner of fighting > street fighting
street fighting1811
street warfare1827
1827 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War II. xviii. 117 The inhabitants of all those houses which were prepared and blockaded for street warfare were compelled to seek quarters in the inner parts of the town.
1938 ‘G. Orwell’ Homage to Catalonia x. 174 Few experiences could be..more nerve-racking than those evil days of street warfare.
1996 Raygun Nov. 83 He described ghetto life as street warfare between avenging youth and corrupt cops.
streetwear n.
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1827 T. Carlyle Let. 26 Nov. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1970) IV. 284 I have very seldom had it on since you were here; it being out of date for street wear.
1948 Life 6 Sept. 88/1 (advt.) Serbin activity dress... Styled for ease..and smart-as-you-please! Perfect for bowling, office, and street wear.
2004 Snoop Aug. 95/1 Loads of sexy men in streetwear with a lot of va va voom.
b. With the sense ‘of or belonging to a street or streets, situated on or forming part of a street’.
street architecture n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > [noun] > seen from street
street architecture1800
1800 J. Dallaway Anecd. Arts Eng. i. vii. 155 The houses designed by him which front the Green Park have ornaments of too florid a style for street architecture.
1933 J. Betjeman Ghastly Good Taste vi. 99 The true eighteenth century tradition, which lavished adornment on the interior and did not worry as much about street architecture.
2002 Victorian July 5/3 The cumulative effect of such buildings was a consistent, uneventful street architecture, with more or less regular fenestration and cornice heights.
street corner n.
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1593 A. Munday tr. C. Estienne Def. Contraries 94 In some Countreyes stored with Vineyardes, when one plentifull yeere comes among other: they will..make waste thereof at euery street corner.
a1627 T. Middleton Chast Mayd in Cheape-side (1630) ii. 21 What are these that stand so close At the Street-corner, pricking vp their Eares?
1705 Way to be Wiser 16 The illiterate Porter cannot rest quietly on a Gazette Day at a Street Corner.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 22 The policeman at the street-corner.
1909 C. Elsee Neoplatonism Pref. p. v The crowd that listens to the street-corner preacher of materialism.
2007 On Board Jan. 24/2 An underwear and lounging range taking inspiration for designs from girls who..just hang around on street corners.
street crossing n.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > parts of road > [noun] > part where pedestrians can cross
street crossing1826
crosswalk1904
pedestrian crossing1933
Belisha crossing1934
zebra crossing1934
overcross1950
zebra1951
ped xing1961
panda crossing1962
pelican crossing1966
puffin1992
1826 R. Phillips Golden Rules Social Philos. ii. 61 Both classes defraud, without scruple, the sweepers of street-crossings of the hard-earned products of their humble tenures.
1875 ‘M. Twain’ in Atlantic Monthly May 571/1 Go on until you know every street-crossing, the character, size, and position of the crossing stones, [etc.].
1956 D. Gascoyne Night Thoughts 26 Street-crossing islands stand becalmed.
2006 Evening Standard (Nexis) 27 Mar. a2 Every street crossing in the Australian city [sc. Melbourne] was staffed by cheerful volunteers who made visitors feel welcome and secure.
street curb n.
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1834 Digest Ordinances (Corporation City of Philadelphia) 167 A space..extending five feet north of the street curb.
2004 London (Ont.) Free Press (Nexis) 25 Feb. a1 Garbage could start piling up on street curbs.
street end n.
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1538 Haddington Burgh Rec. in Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. 2 392 The lockman to stryik hym with ane vand..and to haif ane fresche vand at ylk streit end.
1654 S. Clarke Mirrour for Saints & Sinners (ed. 2) cix. 622 The streets are long, and large;..at each street end is a Triumphall Arch.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 77 They sat generally, in a Room next the Street,..the Dead-Cart came cross the Street End to go into Hounds-ditch.
1891 R. Kipling On Greenhow Hill in Life's Handicap 79 A lamp at a street-end.
1904 A. C. Benson House of Quiet (1907) xiii. 77 The constant presence, in these London pictures, of straight framing lines, contributed by house-front and street-end.
2006 Miami Herald (Nexis) 7 Mar. b1 The..Broadwalk is already undergoing extensive renovations with the addition of bike lanes, a..jogging path, and plazas at every street end.
street kerb n.
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1913 Punch 26 Mar. 237/2 The street-kerb sellers.
2006 S. Wallace John Stuart Blackie ii. 43 Passing to ‘the right-hand side’ of an approaching pedestrian, leaving them with the street kerb.
street lamp n.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [noun] > street-lamp
street lamp1781
street light1819
sconce1849
1781 R. Harrington Philos. & Exper. Enq. 204 In a common street lamp, which burnt one night in the open air,..I found a quantity of water.
1846 Times 18 May 13 Cast-iron..posts and pillars for street lamps, to be made to order.
1874 H. W. Longfellow Summer day by Sea in Bk. Sonn. 6 From the dim headlands many a lighthouse gleams, The street-lamps of the ocean.
1967 R. Rendell Wolf to Slaughter (1970) i. 3 A street lamp on the corner made a bright pool from the kerb to the gate.
2007 Daily Tel. 18 June 7/2 Lamp attendant Martin Caulfield lights one of London's historic gas street lamps in the traditional way.
street map n.
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1854 Advt. in J. Fraser Hand Bk. for Travellers in Irel. (ed. 4) (front matter) A Handbook for Dublin and its Environs. With a Map of the City, and Street Maps, on an entirely new plan.
1964 L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin vii. 52 Spectacles produced a street map and..began marking circles here and there.
2004 G. R. Wainwright Headless Chickens, Laidback Bears i. v. 30 Obtain a ‘perceptual map’ (one on which key buildings and other landmarks are highlighted pictorially) of a city and compare it with a traditional street map of the same area.
street plan n.
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1844 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 213/2 Mr. Murray considers the site of the capital of the colony well selected; and the building and street plans seem good.
1923 R. G. Collingwood Rom. Brit. iii. 48 To go in for a town-planning scheme, to lay out a chess-board street-plan.
1978 W. J. Burley Wycliffe & Scapegoat iii. 55 Wycliffe studied the street plan. ‘Here we are. Albert Terrace.’
2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 4 July v. 8/1 They [sc. the houses]..configured every which way thanks to centuries of shifting street plans.
street post n.
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1766 D. Garrick Let. 12 Apr. (1963) II. 504 I have no complaint but my gouty leg, (of the Street-post order).
1781 Builders Price-bk. (new ed.) 15 Street Posts, 12 Inches Diameter, each Good old Oak.
1846 Times 18 May 13 From ironfounders and others, for the supply of cast-iron street posts, and posts and pillars for street lamps.
2007 Winnipeg Free Press (Nexis) 21 Apr. f1 I rode the bus around the city and put up posters in malls and on street posts.
street side n.
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1438 in C. Welch Hist. Pewterers of London (1902) I. 10 (MED) Also that euery persone..that holdethe open shope by the strete side within the saide Cite or in the suburbs therof..paie yerly to the relef of pouer men of the same Craft xij d.
1538–9 Act Common Councel in H. Calthrop Rep. Cases London (1670) 177 That strong Grates of Iron along the said Water-side, and also by the Street-side,..be made by the Inhabitants of every Ward.
1673 F. Kirkman Counterfeit Lady Unveiled 126 He gave her the accommodation of the fairest Room of the two which was to the street-side.
1711 F. Bugg Quakers Infallibility Shaken xlvi. 669 The Constables..distrained his Goods..but left them in Sam's Possession, at least under his Wall on the Street Side.
1888 Times 2 Oct. 13 Everywhere, in the temples, in the little shrines by the street side, the emblem of the Creator is phallic.
1911 J. Ward Rom. Era Brit. vii. 116 Along the street-side were the remains of a narrow building.
1974 New Yorker 29 Apr. 47/1 The odd oarsman..looks forlorn seen from the bridges or the streetsides.
2005 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 14 Apr. a26/1 Malls keep changing their style. They are ripping away their roofs;..adding open-air plazas, sidewalks and street-side parking.
street sign n.
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1824 J. C. Robertson & T. Byerley London I. 177 Street signs became not merely emblems of trade, but representations of some particular object.
1904 Times 25 May 11/1 He had never read the street sign which stared him in the face.
2005 K. Ascher The Works: Anat. of City i. i. 18 The street signs, parking meters, streetlights, trees, and trash cans..give the streetscape its unmistakably urban flavor.
c. In sense A. 5, as street skater, street skating, etc.
ΚΠ
1986 Toronto Star 12 July a1/3 There are preppy ‘skaters’ and punk skaters, street skaters and ramp skaters, [etc.].
1999 Unity Nov. 69 Paul got to skate the street course.
2001 G. Stout On Halfpipe with Tony Hawk viii. 72 His second-place finish in the street competition silenced critics who claimed he could not compete with skating's younger stars.
2005 Concrete Wave Spring 63/1 If it wasn't built for skateboarding and it's being skateboarded that's street skating.
C2. Objective.
street cleaner n.
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1821 W. Oxberry Flowers of Lit. II. 89 This absurdity was carried so far, that the whip beggar and street cleaner dignified each other with the title of ‘Mr. Beadle and Mr. Scavenger’.
1898 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner xi. 111 A few street-cleaners were leisurely working, a few milkmen were hurrying from door to door.
2001 Independent 10 July ii. 5/2 The problem is simply low pay; this problem extends to include home helps, hospital porters and domestics, entry-level nurses, street cleaners and many others.
† street-layer n. Obsolete
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a1893 W. B. Thomson Reminisc. Med. Mission Work (1895) 78 He had been much exposed from his calling as a street-layer.
street lighting n.
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1824 Edinb. Advertiser 13 July 30/3 Coal gas answered very well for the street lighting, and other purposes, and its introduction into this city must be considered a great improvement.
1916 G. B. Shaw Androcles & Lion p. lxxii The sportsmen, the musicians, the physicists, the biologists will get their apparatus for the asking as easily as their bread or, as at present, their paving, street lighting, and bridges.
2001 Max Power Dec. 81/3 Max 's flexi-neons are the ultimate in street lighting.
street-pacing adj.
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1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 217 There waiter Dick..His counsellor and bosom-friend shall prove, And some street-pacing harlot his first love. View more context for this quotation
1837 M. B. Howitt Wood Leighton I. 40 This street-pacing orator, who was haranguing his companions so loudly that I could hear every word.
1942 M. Bodenheim Lights in Valley 29 They buried him, but still his full Street-pacing ghost pollutes the air.
2004 Palm Beach (Florida) Post (Nexis) 11 July (Accent section) 1D Except for his street-pacing visibility, Brett is not unique. He is one of the estimated 4,000 homeless people currently in Palm Beach County.
C3. Locative, with the sense ‘in the streets’.
street-bred adj.
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1722 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack 5 Sharp as a Street bred Boy must be, but ignorant and unteachable from a Child.
1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 174 The poor little street-bred people that vapour and fume and brag.
1929 ‘R. West’ Harriet Hume (1980) III. 198 I intend to..share some of your low street-bred cherries.
2005 Guardian (Nexis) 1 Jan. (Guide Suppl.) 31 Her photographs capture the energy and creativity of a street-bred culture poised to take over the world.
street-sold adj.
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1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 300/1 At the National Gallery, the street-sold catalogues are 1d., 3d., and 6d.; in the hall, the authorised copy is sold at 4d. and 1s.
2007 Financial Times (Nexis) 21 June 2 The Big Issue, publisher of the street-sold magazine which aids the homeless.
street wanderer n.
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1825 Oriental Herald Dec. 585/1 The source of all our distress can..be traced to the coming amongst us of the dregs of Hindoostan, street wanderers and beggars.
1900 Times 4 Jan. 4/2 53,703 nights' lodgings were supplied to forlorn street wanderers, to whom 73,007 free meals were given.
2007 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 25 Mar. 11 l If Bobbie were indeed raised in the Buchanan household, how did his life progress from rich kid to street wanderer?
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street ballad n. a ballad composed to be sung by street singers.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > ballad
ballad1458
sing-song1609
street ballad1694
balladling1798
song ballad1832
border balladc1863
come-all-ye1892
slowie1939
slow dance1989
1694 J. Wright Country Conversat. v. 77 Which is the most Delightsom Painting or Poetry?.. The little common Dawbings are no more to be valued in one, than the Street Ballads and dispicable Rhimes of the other.
1759 W. H. Dilworth Life of Pope 80 Such as the lowest political pamphlets, the meanest street-ballads glancing at state-affairs or the church established.
1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) ii, in Writings I. 9 A voice was heard..droning a street-ballad of the day.
1941 L. MacNeice Poetry of Yeats viii. 167 Irish folk songs and street ballads.
2001 Hist. Scotl. Winter 30/1 A bitter pamphlet accusing Darnley's murderers..and a street ballad on his murder.
street bike n. = road bike n. at road n. Compounds 6.
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1959 Los Angeles Times 12 Apr. 52 c/3 (advt.) BSA '52 650 c.c. twin, Street Bike. $325.
1993 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 23 Apr. b3 Mountain bikes under $500 are best used mainly as street bikes.
2001 Motocross Jrnl. June 68/2 Instead of selling me a dirt bike, they sold me a street bike.
street boy n. a homeless or neglected boy who lives chiefly in the streets.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [noun] > homeless
Jack out of doors1603
stray1649
street boy1796
street urchin1827
Arab1847
street Arab1853
wastrel1877
street person1907
skell1955
scugnizzo1957
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp > on the street
street girl1764
street boy1796
street child1839
street people1843
street Arab1853
street kid1910
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [noun] > street people > children > street-child
blackguard1699
street girl1764
street boy1796
mudlark1814
street urchin1827
gamin1832
street child1839
Arab1847
street Arab1853
muckworm1859
scuttler1867
gutter-snipec1869
gutter-child1870
gavroche1876
gutter-snippet1891
voyoua1896
street kid1910
dead-end kid1928
gurrier1936
1796 J. Ebers New & Compl. Dict. German & Eng. Lang. I. 269/1 Ein Gassenjunge, a Street-Boy, a common Boy.
1854 C. Dickens Hard Times i. xvi. 127 I was a ragged street-boy.
1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter 31 He opens the door, and fetches in the little stranger. What can it be? a street-boy of some sort?
a1946 C. Carswell Lying Awake (1950) ii. 25 He was a well-behaved, merry and truly pious child, far more so than the Glasgow street boys.
2005 V. Swarup Q & A 20 Street boys like me come at the bottom of the food chain. Above us are the petty criminals, like pickpockets.
street breakfast n. a breakfast prepared or eaten on the street.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > coffee-house or -stall
coffee-house1615
street breakfast1831
caffè1835
coffee palace1879
coffee bar1905
kafenion1939
1831 New Sporting Mag. July 178 Shivering crowds of wretches were to be seen huddling round the stove which boiled the water to supply the early street-breakfast.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 289 At the corner of a bye-street, near Temple-bar, was stationed a ‘street breakfast’. The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire [etc.].
1973 Maclean's Nov. 48/2 It is a neighbourly kind of affair, and features a free street breakfast (coffee, eggs and sausages).
2007 Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City) (Nexis) 8 Apr. Gunfight re-enactments, a street breakfast and a special event for children..are part of the happenings.
† street-chair n. Obsolete a sedan chair.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > conveyance carried by person or animal > [noun] > carrying-chair > sedan chair
bearing-chair1352
seat1588
sedge1615
chair1634
man-litter1640
sedan1640
chair-volant1667
street-chaira1712
sedan chair1750
stick chair1800
tonjonc1804
jampan1828
a1712 J. Lauder Decisions (1759) II. 347 Dame Anna Macmorran..pursues her daughter..for paying her 4000 merks for her mournings..having put a room or two in black, covered her street-chair, and cloathed two servants, a page, &c.
1779 H. Arnot Hist. Edinb. v. i. 598 The street-chairs are to be had on a minute's warning, at all hours of the night or day. The fare is very reasonable.
street chemist n. U.S. a person who prepares and sells illegal drugs.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > supplier or seller of drugs
street chemist1970
superfly1973
1970 Crime in Amer. Illicit & Dangerous Drugs (U.S. Congr. House Sel. Comm. on Crime) 174 How can it be produced so readily by street chemists?
1985 Los Angeles Times 5 Apr. i. 3/4 The doctors discovered that a street chemist had tried to make a synthetic version of the painkiller Demerol.
2005 Lincoln (Nebraska) Jrnl. Star (Nexis) 24 Feb. d1 [The] L.A. street chemist..is in Liverpool to sell his latest creation, the most powerful drug ever created.
street child n. a homeless or neglected child who lives chiefly in the streets.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp > on the street
street girl1764
street boy1796
street child1839
street people1843
street Arab1853
street kid1910
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [noun] > street people > children > street-child
blackguard1699
street girl1764
street boy1796
mudlark1814
street urchin1827
gamin1832
street child1839
Arab1847
street Arab1853
muckworm1859
scuttler1867
gutter-snipec1869
gutter-child1870
gavroche1876
gutter-snippet1891
voyoua1896
street kid1910
dead-end kid1928
gurrier1936
1839 Bentley's Misc. 5 151 When the dusk is just closing in,—the work-people about returning home,—the street children in the gutters bawling their vesper melodies.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 479 Each year sees an increase of the numbers of street-children.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xii. 232 The street-child today with his soot-blackened face and red-daubed nose, rattling a tin, is a much more demure creature than his predecessors.
2004 D. Dalton Rough Guide Philippines 471 An Ibaloi children's rhyme with additional lyrics..about the plight of Filipino street children.
street cleaning n. the action or process of cleaning streets; (formerly also in plural) †matter cleaned from the streets, street sweepings (obsolete).
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1727 B. Langley New Princ. Gardening ii. 33 To one Load of rotten Dung add one Load of Street Cleanings.
1896 Harper's Mag. June 149/1 What do you think of the new Street-Cleaning Department?
1950 Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1949 220 Flush toilets, bathing and laundry, street cleaning, and fire protection require an average of about 40 to 75 gallons per day per capita.
2006 Waste News (Nexis) 16 Jan. 4 The solid waste authority also has to conduct regular street cleaning in communities near the landfill where trash trucks pass through.
street coach n. a coach hired on the street, a hackney carriage.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles (plying) for hire > [noun] > hackney carriage
hackney coach1618
hell-cart1623
hackney1664
hack1692
fiacre1699
hackney carriage1735
dilly1805
street coach1818
jarvey1819
cab1822
hackney cab1832
gurney1884
cabriolet1907
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian x, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 265 ‘No, sir,’ said Jeanie; ‘a friend brought me in ane o' their street coaches—a very decent woman.’
1888 K. P. Wormeley tr. H. de Balzac Louis Lambert (1896) 283 He had hired a carriage for his mistress, that she might no longer go out in the street coaches.
1912 R. E. Beach Net viii. 73 The city was just as dirty and uninteresting as when he had left,..the street coaches were just as rickety.
street cop n. North American colloquial a police officer whose primary duty is to patrol the streets.
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1971 W. J. Bopp Police Rebellion xvi. 123 Cassese..tersely summed up the viewpoint of the street cop.
1986 Toronto Star (Nexis) 18 Oct. d7 Konkel is a street cop whose beat includes some of Toronto's toughest areas in Regent Park and Cabbagetown.
2003 L. Block Small Town 56 The street cops liked it when the top slot was filled by someone who'd been on the job himself.
street crime n. originally U.S. (a) (usually in plural) a crime such as robbery, assault, etc., committed on the streets; (b) (as a mass noun) such crimes collectively.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a crime > other general types of crime
political offence1771
street crime1853
crime passionnel1892
war crime1906
inside job1908
outside job1925
single-o1930
hate crime1960
1853 N.-Y. Daily Times 16 June 4/2 Accident only brings any of the thousand street crimes to the notice of the patrols.
1862 Dublin Univ. Mag. Mar. 357/2 [In Lisbon] I saw no street crime worth mention.
1973 Listener 20 Sept. 364/1 You'd expect..New York to take a highly sophisticated view of the drug problem, for it is more subtle in its operations here,..and responsible for more street crimes—robberies and rapes—than in any other State.
1978 Chicago June 162/2 The states attorney's office..must prosecute virtually all local street crime, leaving meager resources for long, complex investigations.
2004 H. Kennedy Just Law (2005) iii. 73 In the loudhailer promise of ‘Safer Streets’ the Prime Minister insisted that street crime would be greatly reduced within a tight time limit.
street dealer n. a person who sells goods (now esp. illegal drugs) in the streets.
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1844 D. W. Jerrold Chron. Clovernook in Illuminated Mag. 3 6/1 In the outside world he was a street-dealer in rhubarb.
1924 Ada (Okla.) Evening News 20 Jan. 9/6 Street dealers are not particular where or from whom they get their furs.
2006 N.Y. Mag. 17 Apr. 48/1 This places him somewhere in the middle of the..cocaine industry, above petty street dealers, below the organized syndicates.
street dealing n. (a) the selling of goods (now esp. illegal drugs) in the streets; an instance of this; †(b) a transaction conducted outside after the Stock Exchange has closed (obsolete).
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1858 J. D. Burn Commerc. Enterprise & Social Progress ii. 35 Street dealing in London may be viewed in a much more important light.
1930 M. Clarke Home Trade 269 Dealings may then be carried on outside the Exchange itself. Such dealings are termed ‘street dealings’.
1932 Chicago Sunday Tribune 7 Aug. ii. 7/7 It is many months since Throgmorton street has witnessed such animation as..seen..in ‘street’ dealings this week.
2005 Sunday Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 12 June 15 With heroin use comes problems such as street dealing, needles and property crime.
street directory n. a book or other publication containing maps of a city's streets and typically listing their names in alphabetical order.
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1810 Brit. Critic Feb. 202 Mogg's Street Directory, being an entire new and complete List of, and Direction to all the Streets, Squares, Lanes, Courts, and Alleys in London.
1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 6 Jan. Police found money and jewelry in safety-deposit boxes at banks which had been red-circled in a Metro street directory.
2001 J. Robinson Voices of Queensland ii. 56 Refidex..was an original brand name in Queensland and has continued to be used as a generic term for any street directory.
street dirt n. dirt from the street; (in early use spec.) = street manure n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > dunging > dung
dungOE
muckc1268
dunging?1440
fimea1475
fulyiec1480
tath1492
soil1607
street soil1607
dung-water1608
soiling1610
mucking1611
short dung, manure, muck1618
folding1626
muck water1626
stable manure1629
long dung1658
spit-dunga1671
stercoration1694
street dirt1694
horse-litter1721
pot-dunga1722
sock1790
street manure1793
police manure1825
fold-manure1829
slurry1965
1694 A. Burgess Foolish Talking & Jesting Described 56 What an extream Phrenzy then is it, ever so wittily to commit this Folly, to Spue forth worse than Street-Dirt, and name it a Fine Sport?
1765 Museum Rusticum 4 373 He has seen it [sc. coleseed] yield good crops on a dry chalky soil, on which street-dirt had been laid.
1873 Times 26 July 12/1 The salts fix the ammonia of street dirt, and entirely prevent the pungent smell of ordinary dust.
1989 K. Dunn Geek Love i. ii. 15 Lily in summer, with the street dirt rising into the thickening heat, lifts her window and shoves two grimy geraniums from the inside of the window to the outer sill.
2007 Peterborough Evening Tel. (Nexis) 26 July Pram wheels—along with outdoor footwear—can carry street dirt and germs that may multiply in the humid conditions of the swimming pool.
street dog n. a stray or ownerless dog living in the streets.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > ownerless
street dog1775
pariah dog1780
pariah1816
pye-dog1864
pye1886
stray1892
1775 W. Kenrick & J. Murdoch tr. G. L. Leclerc Nat. Hist. Animals, Veg. & Minerals II. 69 There are dogs which may be called treble mongrels, because they proceed from the mixture of two races, already both mixed, as the whelp and the street dog.
1873 C. G. Leland Egyptian Sketch-bk. 228 Nobody looked at it but I and a street-dog.
1911 Contemp. Rev. July 27 We have got rid of the street dogs in Constantinople.
2006 Bark Jan. 75/1 Like other street dogs on the island, he'd adopt tourists for the duration of their visit.
street drug n. a drug sold illegally on the streets.
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1967 Rehabilitating Narcotic Addict vii. 281 No one became re-addicted,..presumably because the street drug failed to have much effect.
1969 Competitive Prob. Drug Industry (Hearings before U.S. Senate Sel. Comm. on Small Business) xiii. 5450 We are often asked to save our children from all of these street drugs. But if you look at high school science studies..even the history of penicillin is usually not there.
1980 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 Dec. 1511/1 Phencyclidine is now a class 2 controlled substance in the United States—and after marijuana has become the most widely abused ‘street drug’ in North America.
2007 Observer 9 Sept. 40/5 A powerful and highly addictive new street drug known as ‘cheese’,... a mixture of black tar heroin and powdered headache tablets.
street farer n. rare a person who passes on or through the streets.
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1880 W. Watson Prince's Quest 51 As [one] who cared no-wise to make fast his ears Against the babble of the street-farers.
1935 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 19 Apr. 10/1 Bell towers censed their friendly admonitions to the street farer.
street fight n. a fight conducted or occurring in the streets.
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1739 Universal Hist. IV. ii. xi. 272 Upon their entering the place, the Japhians held out a bloody and obstinate street fight during six whole hours.
1861 H. Mayhew London Labour III. 29/1 The result of some street-fight.
1930 E. Pound Draft of XXX Cantos ix. 35 And he fought in Fano, in a street fight.
1976 Sunday Mail (Glasgow) 26 Dec. 1/2 Late-night revellers were terrified when several running street fights broke out.
2004 J. G. Dunne Nothing Lost i. v. 176 What she wanted was a long soak in a hot bath, not a street fight with a steroid cretin.
street fighter n. a person who fights on the streets.
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society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > one who fights > in streets
street fighter1837
1837 F. Kemble Star of Seville i. i. 13 I think we'd better spirits in our day Than these same noble street-fighters give promise of.
1838 Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 19 Nov. Cannot our wives and daughters traverse our streets without meeting street fighters, and armed with double-barrelled guns, pistols and bowie knives at every corner?
1950 J. Lait & L. Mortimer Chicago: Confidential ii. xxii. 170 We are all familiar with the hoodlumism of roving robbers after the Civil War, of the New York Hudson Dusters, and similar outfits of plain plunderers and street fighters in all our major cities.
2006 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 15 Apr. 62/1 A former armed robber, brothel-keeper, street fighter and heroin junkie who served two sentences in..Pentridge Jail.
street fighting n. and adj. (a) n. fighting conducted or occurring in the streets, esp. on a large scale for political or revolutionary ends; (b) adj. that fights in the streets.
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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > [noun] > manner of fighting > street fighting
street fighting1811
street warfare1827
1811 Edinb. Ann. Reg. 1809 2 i.567/1 But the blind populace..gave up the advantage of street-fighting, where their numbers and their artillery must have ensured success.
1832 F. Maceroni (title) Defensive instructions..on..street and house fighting.
1900 W. S. Churchill in Morning Post 12 July 7/7 The general being desirous of obtaining the formal surrender of Heilbron, and so preventing street-fighting or bombardment.
1950 R. Sinclair East London 346 Old Nichol Street,..the centre of the street-fighting gangs [in Dickens's time].
1968 M. Jagger & K. Richard Street Fighting Man (song) in D. Dalton Rolling Stones (1972) 294 In sleepy London town There's just no place for street fighting man.
2000 A. Rashid Taliban (2001) 58 Untrained in street fighting and not knowing the maze of city alleyways, the Taliban were easy victims.
street firing n. now historical discharge of musketry in order to defend or clear a street; an instance of this.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > type of firing
point and blank1590
false fire1602
potting1613
point-blank1614
running fire1629
pounding1633
bulleting1635
platooning1706
sharp-shot1725
street firing1727
ricochet1740
fire curtain1744
plunging fire1747
reverse fire1758
sniping1773
enfilade1796
rapid fire1800
line-firing1802
concentric1804
sharpshooting1806
rake1810
sniping fire1821
cross-firing1837
file-firing1837
curved fire1854
night firing1856
file-fire1857
volley-firing1859
cross-fire1860
joy-firing1864
snap-shooting1872
stringing1873
pot-shooting1874
indirect fire1879
sweeping1907
rapid1913
curtain of fire1916
ripple1939
ripple-firing1940
ripple fire1961
1727 H. Bland Treat. Mil. Discipline viii. 116 Marching by Platoons,..as describ'd in the seventh Article, Chapter Six, on Street-Firing.
1763 Brit. Mag. 4 543 About a mile and a half from the fort we had orders to form into platoons, and, if attacked in the front, to fire by street-firings.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. v. iii. 239 Neither have the Gardes Françaises, the best regiment of the line, shewn any promptitude for street-firing lately.
1994 D. H. Fischer Paul Revere's Ride 405 The drill for street firing was not familiar to all the units at the bridge. It had not been included in the 18 evolutions required in the King's Regulations of 1765.
street floor n. now chiefly U.S. = ground floor n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > floor or storey > ground floor
first storeyc1384
first floor1549
ground floor1601
ground-story1657
terreno1740
rez-de-chaussée1802
street floor1813
street level1830
downstairs1841
ground-flat1865
1813 Edinb. Advertiser 15 Jan. 35/3 Tenement..consisting of a large cellar below, two shops and bake-house with flour cellar, on the street floor; and of three other stories and garret.
1927 J. R. Doubman & J. R. Whitaker Organization & Operations of Department Stores vii. 162 The first or street floor of a store is the most desirable for selling.
1972 H. Kemelman Monday Rabbi took Off xxvi. 170 Why would he take an apartment on a street floor here?
2007 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) 13 May r1 The office or studio can take up no more than 50 percent of the first or street floor.
street food n. food that is purchased from a street vendor and typically eaten immediately, often while standing; a food of this type.
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1860 G. W. Thornbury Turkish Life & Char. I. iv. 74 The cake is yellow and spongy..and well made, as Turkish street food always is.
1926 Los Angeles Times 27 Sept. i. 3/2 Sunflower seed is a staple street food. Peddlers sell them at every street corner.
2002 Food & Trav. Oct. 16/2 Tour the hawker stalls to sample cheap, delicious street food such as kway teoh (stir-fried rice noodles).
street furniture n. objects commonly encountered in a street; now spec. (originally Town Planning) articles fixed in the street for public use, as postboxes, road signs, benches, etc.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [noun] > post boxes, road-signs, etc.
street furniture1836
1836 C. Colton Four Years Great Brit. 97 Their rapid driving..soon defaces and cripples them [sc. cabs], as they are liable to come in frequent contact with other street furniture, in consequence of the fury with which they are driven.
1860 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 96 They are prone..to walk the same streets at the same hours,..so that one becomes familiar with their faces and persons, as a part of the street-furniture.
1944 J. C. Riddell Rep. Post War Housing 11 In all future planning there should..be the closest co-operation between all departments and services responsible for the erection of street furniture and small buildings.
2002 Best of Brit. Nov. 39/1 Belisha beacons—those familiar flashing items of street furniture that have remained unchanged almost fifty years on.
† street-gadder n. Obsolete a person (esp. a woman) who ‘gads’ about the streets.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wandering idly > one who
roilera1450
vaguer15..
gadder?1548
street-gadder1574
gadfly1605
gallopera1693
rouseabout1746
gadabout1757
gadabroad1810
meanderer1887
1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 501 His wife is a seeker of kinred, a gossip, a streete gadder.
1894 T. D. English Select Poems 393 When some woman..The faults of her sisters brings closer to view, Calling this one street-gadder, and that one a shrew.
street gas n. now historical coal gas as formerly used in street lighting.
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1831 Monthly Rev. Dec. 627 Patents have been recently taken out for improvements..in manufacturing street gas.
1918 A. Symons Cities & Sea-Coasts & Islands II. 209 The dim, sufficing street-gas of the lamp-posts.
1954 C. R. Hall Hist. Amer. Industr. Sci. iii. 79 Etienne Lenoir..placed one of them [sc. stationary engines] in a vehicle in 1862, and drove the crude contraption from Paris to Joinville-le-Pont..using ‘street gas’ as fuel.
street girl n. a girl who lives or works on the streets, spec. a prostitute.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute
meretrixOE
whoreOE
soiled dovea1250
common womanc1330
putec1384
bordel womanc1405
putaina1425
brothelc1450
harlot?a1475
public womanc1510
naughty pack?1529
draba1533
cat1535
strange woman1535
stew1552
causey-paikera1555
putanie?1566
drivelling1570
twigger1573
punka1575
hackney1579
customer1583
commodity1591
streetwalker1591
traffic1591
trug1591
hackster1592
polecat1593
stale1593
mermaid1595
medlar1597
occupant1598
Paphian1598
Winchester goose1598
pagan1600
hell-moth1602
aunt1604
moll1604
prostitution1605
community1606
miss1606
night-worm1606
bat1607
croshabell1607
prostitute1607
pug1607
venturer1607
nag1608
curtal1611
jumbler1611
land-frigate1611
walk-street1611
doll-common1612
turn-up1612
barber's chaira1616
commonera1616
public commonera1616
trader1615
venturea1616
stewpot1616
tweak1617
carry-knave1623
prostibule1623
fling-dusta1625
mar-taila1625
night-shadea1625
waistcoateera1625
night trader1630
coolera1632
meretrician1631
painted ladya1637
treadle1638
buttock1641
night-walker1648
mob?1650
lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651
lady of pleasure1652
trugmullion1654
fallen woman1659
girlc1662
high-flyer1663
fireship1665
quaedama1670
small girl1671
visor-mask1672
vizard-mask1672
bulker1673
marmalade-madam1674
town miss1675
town woman1675
lady of the night1677
mawks1677
fling-stink1679
Whetstone whore1684
man-leech1687
nocturnal1693
hack1699
strum1699
fille de joie1705
market-dame1706
screw1725
girl of (the) town1733
Cytherean1751
street girl1764
monnisher1765
lady of easy virtue1766
woman (also lady) of the town1766
kennel-nymph1771
chicken1782
stargazer1785
loose fish1809
receiver general1811
Cyprian1819
mollya1822
dolly-mop1834
hooker1845
charver1846
tail1846
horse-breaker1861
professional1862
flagger1865
cocodette1867
cocotte1867
queen's woman1871
common prostitute1875
joro1884
geisha1887
horizontal1888
flossy1893
moth1896
girl of the pavement1900
pross1902
prossie1902
pusher1902
split-arse mechanic1903
broad1914
shawl1922
bum1923
quiff1923
hustler1924
lady of the evening1924
prostie1926
working girl1928
prostisciutto1930
maggie1932
brass1934
brass nail1934
mud kicker1934
scupper1935
model1936
poule de luxe1937
pro1937
chromo1941
Tom1941
pan-pan1949
twopenny upright1958
scrubber1959
slack1959
yum-yum girl1960
Suzie Wong1962
mattress1964
jamette1965
ho1966
sex worker1971
pavement princess1976
parlour girl1979
crack whore1990
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp > on the street
street girl1764
street boy1796
street child1839
street people1843
street Arab1853
street kid1910
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [noun] > street people > children > street-child
blackguard1699
street girl1764
street boy1796
mudlark1814
street urchin1827
gamin1832
street child1839
Arab1847
street Arab1853
muckworm1859
scuttler1867
gutter-snipec1869
gutter-child1870
gavroche1876
gutter-snippet1891
voyoua1896
street kid1910
dead-end kid1928
gurrier1936
1764 J. Boswell Jrnl. 14 Sept. in Boswell on Grand Tour (1953) I. 92 I amused myself with a street girl in London.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 471 The earnings of the street boys and girls.
1907 G. B. Shaw Major Barbara i in John Bull's Other Island 206 You have had the education of a lady... Don't talk like a street girl.
2003 Jack May 253/1 His hatred of prostitutes began after he was cheated and humiliated by a local street girl.
street gossip n. (a) a person who gossips in the street; (b) gossip exchanged or passed on in the streets.
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1843 Times 3 Oct. 5 The most determined street-gossips fairly ran away, thinking that all the artillery in Madrid was thundering around them.
1861 Times 13 Sept. 9 Idle stories and erroneous statements of encounters and battles, the offspring of the street gossip in the capital.
1920 S. Lewis Main St. xx. 240 She raged that she, who had been slim and light-footed, should have to lean on a stick, and be heartily commented upon by street gossips.
1964 Spectator 28 Feb. 270 Its education comes from street gossip and the exhortations of radio editorialists.
2002 Hist. Religions 41 315 Rapid-fire exchanges of street gossip.
street grid n. (a) a grating which allows surface water to be drained from a street; (b) an arrangement of streets crossing at right angles to each other.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [noun] > specific arrangement of streets
street grid1857
1857 Mechanics' Mag. 24 Jan. 92 The inventor also provides in street grids a small upright grid, at right angles above the larger grid, and against the kerb-stone of the pavement.
1948 Antiquity 22 173 The wide road leading to its main entrance from the east is plainly out of alignment with the street grid on the west side of the Forum block.
1990 A. Burton Cityscapes xvii. 203/1 The Cathays Park area is laid out on a street grid in which imposing buildings front formal parks.
2006 U.S. Fed News (Nexis) 7 Dec. Heino Messerschmidt..have developed a street grid for surface drainage.
street hockey n. North American a variety of ice hockey played on the street with a ball (instead of a puck).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > ice hockey > [noun] > played in street
street hockey1953
1953 Winnipeg Free Press 24 Nov. 3/1 The boy had been playing street hockey and had run behind a parked truck for the puck into the path of the car.
1976 New Yorker 26 Apr. 90/3 Meynell and I played marbles, mumblety-peg, running games, street hockey, primitive baseball, stoop ball, games of imagination.
2003 C. Lewis Dict. Playground Slang 265 Alley hockey game..budget street hockey, played with any suitable bent stick and a squashed Coke can for a puck.
street island n. a raised area in the middle of a street, designed to separate traffic and aid pedestrians in crossing; = traffic island n. at traffic n. Compounds 2.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > parts of road > [noun] > portion for safety of pedestrians
street island1853
island1869
refuge1869
street refuge1879
traffic island1887
safety island1893
safety isle1902
safety zone1915
1853 O. Wenckstern tr. M. Schlesinger Saunterings London ii. 16 Women breath more quietly..after having reached this street-island [Ger. Straßeninsel], where they are safe from the ever-returning tide of street life.
1934 Sun (Baltimore) 31 May 5/3 A hard-driving taxi driver ignored a red signal, threatened the traffic policeman's knees, missed the street island by a hair [etc.].
2007 Omaha (Nebraska) World-Herald (Nexis) 19 Feb. 1 a Representatives..expressed concern that..common areas—parks, street islands with trees and grass, traffic roundabouts with flowers and plants—will not be maintained.
street jewellery n. (a) jewellery bought or sold on the street; (b) painted enamel advertising plates considered as collectors' items.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > other ornamental objects
Stafford knot1552
cocked hat1835
bullen-nail1842
street jewellery1851
overdoor1873
Russian Easter egg1881
wally dug1904
society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > types or methods of advertising > [noun] > advertising plates as collectors' items
street jewellery1851
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 346/2 I had the following account from a man of twelve years' experience in the vending of street jewellery.
1978 C. Baglee & A. Morley Street Jewellery 9 Street jewellery, flashing in the winter sunlight, gleaming in gaslight..—the enamel sign.
1982 Arts North June 9 (caption) Street jewellery—one of the saucier enamel signs from the fascinating exhibition at the Dorman Museum.
2007 Hindustan Times (Nexis) 30 Oct. The Tibetan markets, which sell a variety of things ranging from street jewellery to Buddhist religious books.
street kid n. originally U.S. slang = street child n.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp > on the street
street girl1764
street boy1796
street child1839
street people1843
street Arab1853
street kid1910
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [noun] > street people > children > street-child
blackguard1699
street girl1764
street boy1796
mudlark1814
street urchin1827
gamin1832
street child1839
Arab1847
street Arab1853
muckworm1859
scuttler1867
gutter-snipec1869
gutter-child1870
gavroche1876
gutter-snippet1891
voyoua1896
street kid1910
dead-end kid1928
gurrier1936
1910 B. B. Lindsey & H. J. O'Higgins Beast viii. 146 I..had a little newsboy come to me with the assurance that if I wanted the ‘street kids’ to stop ‘shooting craps’, I need only go down and tell them so.
1977 Rolling Stone 5 May 55/1 You could go to New Delhi or Calcutta, there are thousands of street kids there.
2005 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 2 June 3/5 Michael never did anything wrong—he always tried to help the street kids.
street-legal adj. originally U.S. designating a motor vehicle (esp. a motorcycle) which satisfies the legal requirements for use on the road.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > [adjective] > of or relating to motor vehicles > satisfying legal requirements
street-legal1969
1969 Valley News (Van Nuys, Calif.) 24 Aug. 44/5 (advt.) VW. Street legal. Fiberglass. Xlnt. $1200.
1980 Dirt Bike Oct. 58/3 The rear fender is plastic, which is a rarity on street legal bikes.
1998 Classic Cars Apr. 163/1 C4 means much work is needed to make a car presentable or street legal.
2002 Time Out N.Y. 3 Oct. 62/2 Myers contributes a street-legal motorcycle—with only one wheel.
street length n. and adj. (a) n. the length of a street (frequently in extended use: cf. the length of a street at Phrases 6a); (b) adj. that reaches to the street, floor-length; (also) of a length suitable for or typically worn in the street.
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1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country 25 Cardinal Mirecourt, quenching lesser lights: The leafy street-length through.
1910 Spectator 9 July 51/2 They may be street-lengths from it, but it is sure to find them.
1941 Ottawa Evening Jrnl. 21 June 8/1 In her wedding the bride chose a street-length dress of white eyelet embroidered jersey.
1982 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 29 Mar. Three-piece outfit, including two silk dirndl-style skirts,..one street-length and one ankle-length.
2007 Sunday Times (Nexis) 28 Jan. (Sport section) 28 They trailed in forlornly in fifth place, a streetlength behind the winner.
street level n. (a) ground-floor level; (b) figurative the level of direct contact with the public, or of operation on the streets; frequently attributive, designating a person, organization, etc., having this.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > floor or storey > ground floor
first storeyc1384
first floor1549
ground floor1601
ground-story1657
terreno1740
rez-de-chaussée1802
street floor1813
street level1830
downstairs1841
ground-flat1865
society > communication > [noun] > level of communication with public
street level1963
1830 W. Chambers Bk. Scotl. 227 The cellar was moreover dedicated to the use of a cobbler, chimney sweep, or water carrier, with a shop constructed on the street-level.
1934 Archit. Rev. 75 214/3 The storey built above, the street-level floor was called a solar.
1952 J. Lait & L. Mortimer U.S.A. Confidential i. iii. 25 They now want to give him the enforcement of all street-level vice.
1963 ‘J. le Carré’ Spy who came in from Cold xv. 140 Branch Secretaries with..a good record of stimulating mass action at street level.
1974 ‘E. Lathen’ Sweet & Low xi. 114 He reached street level.
1982 G. F. Newman Men with Guns ix. 69 Kohn avoided contact with street-level hoods... Now he was a respectable businessman.
2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 25 Apr. a20/1 A street-level operative who works..a section of a neighborhood, collecting bets [on a game] in the morning and making payouts after the hits are announced.
street luge n. originally U.S. the sport or pastime of coasting down a paved incline while lying on a skateboard or similar wheeled platform in supine position with the feet facing forward.
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1992 Random Stuff in alt.vampyres (Usenet newsgroup) 22 Oct. If you want to fly hang gliding is a blast. Want to experience speed, try street luge!
2000 Newsweek 1 Jan. 80/1 Extreme sports—from trick-oriented events like snowboarding to races like street luge..—are all about irreverence and style points.
street luger n. originally U.S. a participant in street luge.
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1994 USA Today 13 Apr. 3 c/1 Street lugers might not have come to your town yet.
2002 MX News 5 Aug. 6/1 A street luger was seriously injured on Saturday when he collided with a car on a street near Wollongong.
street manure n. manure from the streets; horse dung and road scrapings, formerly used as fertilizer.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > dunging > dung
dungOE
muckc1268
dunging?1440
fimea1475
fulyiec1480
tath1492
soil1607
street soil1607
dung-water1608
soiling1610
mucking1611
short dung, manure, muck1618
folding1626
muck water1626
stable manure1629
long dung1658
spit-dunga1671
stercoration1694
street dirt1694
horse-litter1721
pot-dunga1722
sock1790
street manure1793
police manure1825
fold-manure1829
slurry1965
1793 G. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Mid Lothian 49 Street manure has declined in value ever since.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 676 That stable-dung is the most heating,..that byre-dung is cooler,..and that street-manure is very inferior to the other two in every respect.
1921 R. Hering & S. A. Greeley Coll. & Disposal Munic. Refuse 602 The use of automobiles has lately increased to such an extent that in some cities..the quantity of good street manure has become very small.
2001 Econ. Hist. Rev. 54 699 A rise in infant diarrhoea at the very end of the nineteenth century..has been linked..to the surge in horse transport, and hence street manure and flies.
street parlour n. now historical a sitting room on the ground floor fronting the street.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > sitting room
parlourc1384
street parlour1734
sitting room1763
keeping-room1771
room1795
voorhuis1822
voorkamer1827
lounge1881
sitkamer1897
sitter1899
sit1911
1734 J. Swift Let. Jan. in Wks. (1768) XIII. 119 Being told by the servants that I was gone to a friend's house, [he] went thither to inquire for me, and was admitted into the street parlour.
1837 Times 31 Aug. 3/5 The tawdry finery, and the stew, and the smell, of the sweltering street parlour.
1911 G. Moore Hail & Farewell! I. x. 276 He loves the dialect and detests the defaced idiom which we speak in our street parlour.
2005 C. Casey Dublin 371 On the ground floor..a flagged passage runs behind the street parlour.
street people n. (a) people who live or work on the street, or habitually occupy the streets; (now esp.) homeless or vagrant people; (b) people involved in petty crime in the urban underworld, spec. people dealing in the illicit supply of drugs on the street.In the 1960s and 70s sometimes applied to people living on the streets as a protest against the conventional values of society (originally and chiefly U.S.).
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [noun] > street people
street people1843
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp > on the street
street girl1764
street boy1796
street child1839
street people1843
street Arab1853
street kid1910
society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in narcotics
score1951
horse-trader1963
street people1969
society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a criminal or law-breaker > collectively > specific
street people1969
1843 Bentley’s Misc. 13 103 He's too genteel to attract the street-people, he is.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 272/1 Some few of them [sc. pocket-books] may..have been damaged, and these are bought by the street-people as a ‘job lot’.
1905 J. Huneker Visionaries xviii. 313 Baki and his daughter were not highly regarded by reputable citizens,..though the street people followed their music.
1967 Trans-action Apr. 5/1 In Los Angeles, members of..street groups sometimes call themselves ‘street people’, ‘cool people’, or simply ‘regulars’.
1969 Guardian 24 May 1/3 The precincts inhabited by Berkeley's hippies and ‘street people’.
1972 National Observer (U.S.) 27 May 7/2 There's evidence that methadone has become almost as popular as heroin among addicts. Street people say so.
1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 4 July 2- b/3 ‘At first, we got mostly street people,’ said Nyberg. ‘Lately our patients have begun to be from the higher social levels.’
2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 May 18/2 The play opens in a vast soulless plaza; the mechanicals are street people—a hooker, a pimp, and a drunk.
street person n. a person living on the streets; a homeless person, a vagrant.In quot. 1907: a person seen or encountered in the streets.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [noun] > homeless
Jack out of doors1603
stray1649
street boy1796
street urchin1827
Arab1847
street Arab1853
wastrel1877
street person1907
skell1955
scugnizzo1957
1907 J. C. Snaith William Jordan, Junior i. 7 Dost thou mean..that I must leave this little room of ours and go out among the street-persons in the endless streets of the great city.
1969 Los Angeles Times 20 July (West Mag.) 12/5 Lindsay is neither a street-person nor a faculty member.
1989 W. Houston Inside Maple Leaf Gardens xvi. 194 Mike calls himself a street person. He says he was born on the street and raised on the street.
2003 S. Brown Free Gift Inside! 51 Ursula spots a feral street person living rough in Middle City's Banister Park.
street porter n. now historical a porter employed to lift or carry heavy packages in the street (in early use = ticket-porter n.).
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > porter > types of
wine-porter1580
street porter1606
tackle-house porter1606
tackle-porter1607
sealed porter1631
ticket-porter1646
tub-woman1660
keep-door1682
Suisse1763
bamboo-coolie1800
hop-porter1812
plyer1826
night porter1841
fellowship1864
hall-porter1883
mobber1892
redcap1903
badgeman1904
bummaree1954
1606 Act Common-Council London 27 June in H. Mayhew London Labour (1861) III. 365/1 Tackle-house porter, porter-packer of the gooddes of English merchants, streete-porter, or porter to the packer for the said citie for strangers' goods.
1706 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. v. 4 I glanc'd an Eye at ev'ry Body,..Oyster-Whores fighting, School-Boys scrambling, Street Porters running, Rascals batt'ling.
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 128 If, as Addison complains, you sometimes see a street-porter staggering under his load on spindle-shanks.
2002 S. R. Christianson in R. B. Browne et al. Detective as Historian 198 An eighteenth-century detective who, as a watchman, is..able to capitalize on his close contact with criminals, beggars, street porters, thief-catchers.
street railway n. now historical a railway that runs along a street, a tramway.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road laid with parallel planks, slabs, or rails > [noun] > laid with rails > for tramcars
street railway1828
tramway1860
tramline1886
trolley-road1895
beltline1898
1828 Edinb. Jrnl. Sci. 8 361 Observations on Street Railways. By Mr Alexander Scott, Ormiston, were read.
1861 Chambers's Jrnl. 29 June 416/1 The street railways of the American cities.
1862 D. W. Mitchell Ten Years U.S. 265 A crowded street-railway car.
1992 J. M. Bumsted Peoples of Canada ii. 32 Mackenzie became a successful railroad contractor and in the early 1890s was a pioneer in street-railway electrification in Winnipeg and Toronto.
† street-raking adj. Scottish Obsolete that wanders about the streets.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering > wandering the streets
street-raking1818
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 151 What signifies what we were, ye street-raking limmer!
1846 Fraser's Mag. Mar. 351/2 On the other side of the table stood a young woman, clean and smart, but with much of the street-raking look of a night-walker.
street refuge n. (a) a (usually raised) area in a street, providing refuge for pedestrians from traffic; = refuge n. 4c; (b) an establishment providing meals and shelter for homeless people (cf. refuge n. 4a).
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > parts of road > [noun] > portion for safety of pedestrians
street island1853
island1869
refuge1869
street refuge1879
traffic island1887
safety island1893
safety isle1902
safety zone1915
1879 Times 1 Feb. 6/2 Thirty-six of these [street] lamps are on the footways, four on the street refuges.
1884 St. James's Gaz. 11 Jan. 5/2 A new street-refuge should be constructed.
1986 Stone's Justices' Man. (ed. 118) III. v. 6924 ‘Central reservation’ means any provision, not consisting of a street refuge, made in a road for separating one part of the carriageway of that road from another.
1994 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator (Nexis) 22 Feb. a7 The volunteer cost to citizens of street refuges and the municipal cost of the social workers.
2003 K. Hopper Reckoning with Homelessness iii. 107 In contrast to most street refuges, such basic survival issues as food, toilet facilities, warmth, privacy, and cleanliness were not pressing ones for men in the tunnels.
street rod n. originally U.S. a hot rod adapted for street use.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > hot rod or dragster
hot rod1943
rod1947
rail1953
dragster1954
street rod1954
muscle car1966
1954 Amer. Speech 29 103 The ‘street rod’ is distinguished from the ‘track car’, which is intended primarily for drag-strip or lakes racing.
1977 New Society 3 Mar. 436/2 Custom-car cruisers, in their glistening, overpowered improvisations... The monthly influx of around 250 ‘street rods’ causes a solid traffic jam.
2003 Wired May 21/2 Domestics are pre-'49 street rods, '60s–'70s muscle cars, late-model EFI cars, and myriad drag classes.
street rodding n. the action of adapting, driving, or racing street rods.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > testing, servicing, and storage of motor vehicles > [noun] > modifying to specific type
street rodding1973
1973 Modesto (Calif.) Bee & News-Herald 27 June b4/1 This is not the old style street drag racing from the early 1950s. This is street rodding.
1976 Panorama (Austral.) Dec. 4 One of Australia's fastest-growing sports is street rodding—turning pre-1948 cars into sparkling, high-performance vehicles which belie their age.
1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 30 May 21/2 Originally a young man's game, played mostly on the cheap, street rodding hasn't come of age so much as it's now of an age.
street room n. (a) a room, esp. on the ground floor, fronting the street; (b) room on a street, (sufficient) space in the streets.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [noun] > sufficient space in
street room1685
1685 N. Tate Cuckolds-Haven i. ii. 7 Sec. Bring him up, dear Charge, I do hunger and thirst to do him good.—To thy Chamber, my dear Turtle. Wyn. Let it be the Street Room this time, Cue.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 127. ¶7 Our publick Ways would be so crouded that we should want Street-room.
1789 Fair Hibernian I. 220 I hate silence. I wish I slept in one of the street rooms.
1852 T. J. Vaiden Rational Relig. & Morals 991 There are in the world, large cities..a band of pirates, that would not give you street-room, if they could profit by it.
1986 Hesperia 56 11 Of the four street rooms only the northernmost of Building 1 varies from the standard dimensions.
2004 Register-Guard (Eugene, Oregon) a14 Should I drive my car on the footpath to give them more street room?
street savvy n. and adj. (a) n. = street smarts n.; (b) adj.= street-smart adj.
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the world > action or operation > ability > [noun] > resourcefulness > in urban environment
street savvy1965
street smarts1966
the world > action or operation > ability > [adjective] > resourceful > in urban environment
streetwise1949
street savvy1965
street-smart1966
1965 Chicago Tribune 31 Jan. ii. 8/1 Loftus learned his trade and ‘street savvy’ as a detective in the old Central homicide detail.
1971 D. O. Schultz in W. J. Bopp Police Rebellion xi. 94 The hard working, dedicated, and street-savvy police officers throughout our country.
1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 17 Apr. 30 He and other students had combined their street savvy to make up the test.
2004 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 4 Sept. 4 I can talk to her about everything and anything because she's so street savvy and world wise.
street scene n. a view or prospect of a street; (also) the spectacle of life in the streets.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > [noun] > view or scenery > others
street scene1673
skyscape1811
streetscape1833
cityscape1856
skyline1875
townscape1880
roofscape1891
roadscape1899
farmscape1922
manscape1927
slumscape1947
1673 H. N. Payne Morning Ramble ii. 19 (stage direct.) The Street Scene.
1797 J. Denholm Hist. City of Glasgow 60 An elegant equestrian statue,..which, together with the spire of the Tron or Laigh church,..fill up the view scarcely to be paralleled by any street scene in Britain.
1870 D. J. Kirwan Palace & Hovel xxvi. 407 The great..attraction among the multifarious street scenes of London, is the Punch and Judy show.
1979 N.Y. Times Mag. 30 Sept. 37/2 The girls' mother, Ada, is down on the stoop, watching the street scene as if it were television.
2000 J. Caughie Television Drama iv. 115 The sequence ends with a shot which..pans down to a street scene and zooms in on the three young women.
street-smart adj. originally U.S. colloquial = streetwise adj.; cf. book-smart adj. at book n. Compounds 3.
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the world > action or operation > ability > [adjective] > resourceful > in urban environment
streetwise1949
street savvy1965
street-smart1966
1966 News Jrnl. (Mansfield, Ohio) 11 June 10 He was a ‘street smart’ kid who has said he was 19-years-old before he found out that ‘the city paid the cops too’.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 1 May 5/1 Rizzo is tough, street-smart, charming in his own special way.
1987 K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1989) 28 Tiffany and Alexis, the way I'm bringin' them up, is to be street smart.
2001 New Internationalist Nov. 12/3 Times are changing because ordinary people are street-smart, because they know the ropes.
street smarts n. originally U.S. colloquial the ability to live by one's wits in an urban environment; cf. book smarts n. at book n. Compounds 3.
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the world > action or operation > ability > [noun] > resourcefulness > in urban environment
street savvy1965
street smarts1966
1966 Chicago Daily Defender 17 Aug. 12 Slater was one of this city's few jurists who possessed ‘street smarts’ commensurate with his book learning.
1976 N.Y. Times 9 Aug. 30 To be free, however, requires street-smarts, the cunning of the survivor.
1978 New Yorker 20 Nov. 113 They thought always about winning, and, one way or another, they almost always did win. Like the A's, these Yankees have street-smarts.
2005 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 9 Jan. 18/3 His lawyer characters often pack heat, are adept at car chases and win more by their street smarts than their legal research skills.
street soil n. now historical = street manure n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > dunging > dung
dungOE
muckc1268
dunging?1440
fimea1475
fulyiec1480
tath1492
soil1607
street soil1607
dung-water1608
soiling1610
mucking1611
short dung, manure, muck1618
folding1626
muck water1626
stable manure1629
long dung1658
spit-dunga1671
stercoration1694
street dirt1694
horse-litter1721
pot-dunga1722
sock1790
street manure1793
police manure1825
fold-manure1829
slurry1965
1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue v. 229 The Farmers neere London, haue found a benefite, by bringing the Scauingers street soyle.
1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 17 A wharf used for a laystall, to which the rakers carry street-soil.
1876 Q. A. Gillmore Pract. Treat. Roads 203 In dry weather this street soil, of which horse-dung is a large ingredient, floats in the atmosphere and penetrates the dwellings in the form of unwholesome dust.
1997 G. G. Astill & W. Davies Breton Landscape 31 Though ash, lime, and..bone-black were being used [as fertilizer] in many parts of France by 1852, the cantons of the survey area record only the use of dung and ash and the purchase of street soil at that time.
street-sweeper n. (a) a person whose occupation is to sweep the streets; (also) a tool, machine, or vehicle used to sweep the streets; (b) slang (chiefly U.S.) a type of 12-gauge shotgun capable of rapid fire.
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1797 Bailey's Dict. Eng.-German & German-Eng. (ed. 9) II. 191/2 Gassenfehrer, street-sweeper, dustman.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxv. 595 If she..made a curtsey to a street-sweeper.
1902 Los Angeles Times 6 Nov. ii. 2/4 This apparatus meets every requirement of such a mechanical street sweeper.
1988 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 23 Apr. 1 a Another NRA official was handed a flier for an automatic weapon called the Street Sweeper.
2001 R. B. Parker Potshot (2002) 287 Fortunato came onto the porch carrying a street sweeper. ‘Lot of firepower for a guy your size,’ I said. ‘Fifty rounds of twelve-gauge shotgun shells,’ Bernard said. ‘Automatic.’
2005 K. Ascher The Works: Anat. of City v. xvi. 200 (caption) Street sweepers have two gutter brooms, which rotate and thus sweep inward.
2006 Time Out N.Y. 2 Feb. 10/2 RWA got him a job as a street sweeper in the Bronx.
street sweeping n. the action or process of sweeping streets (frequently attributive); (in plural) refuse swept from the streets (now chiefly historical).
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?1796 ‘W. Cobbett’ Life T. Paine 19 Oh, base democracy! Why, it is absolutely worse than street-sweepings, or the filth of common-sewers.
1843 Builder 18 Feb. 21/3 [Description of the] Patent Self-Loading Cart, or Street-Sweeping Machine.
1849 A. R. Wallace My Life (1905) I. xviii. 273 Piassaba (the coarse stiff fibre of a palm, used for making brooms for street-sweeping).
1921 Times 29 June 7 The arrangement to employ some unemployed for street sweeping on Sunday mornings has been discontinued by the Westminster Council.
1999 Guardian 10 Mar. i. 26/5 Stinking ‘dock dung’, a mixture of night soil, street sweepings with horse muck, fish waste and butchers' offal, was brought up the river in barges.
2003 N.Y. Mag. 24 Feb. 17/4 Traffic agents have tended to wink..at alternate-side double-parking on street-sweeping days.
street talk n. talk heard on or belonging to the streets; spec. (a) street gossip; (b) street jargon or dialect, now esp. (originally U.S.) slang characteristic of modern urban subculture.
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1654 Mercurius Politicus 12–19 Jan. 3198 The like care they have taken here to bestow the Queen of Sweden upon the Emperors son, who is called King of the Romans, which truly is no Tavern nor street-talk.
1820 H. Arbuthnot Jrnl. (1950) I. 3 It is said that the King applied on the point to some of the leaders of the Opposition, who refused to accept office on the terms proposed. But this is only street talk.
1826 C. Lamb in New Monthly Mag. 16 263 The casual street-talk between a poor woman and her little girl.
1969 R. Salerno & J. S. Tompkins Crime Confederation 153 In street talk, females, except one's mother or sister, are still broads.
1993 Observer 2 May 3/1 The acronym stands for Other People's Property—street talk for infidelity.
2006 Touch Dec. 12/1 The content of this column is pure rumour, Chinese whispering and street talk. Don't take it as gospel.
† street-thread n. Obsolete = street web n., street yarn n.
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > gossiping > gossip
jowl?c1225
trattle1513
tittle-tattle1570
tattle1583
clatter1596
street web1614
town talk1642
street-threada1661
clash1685
fetch-fire1784
street yarn1800
gossip1811
village gossip1847
Russian scandal1861
chopsing1879
cooze1880
reportage1881
skeet1900
scuttlebutt gossip1901
pussy-talk1937
mauvais languec1945
comess1970
he-say-she-say1972
gyaff1975
skinder1979
goss1985
gist1990
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Kent 58 Many idle women who now onely spin Street-thread (going tatling about with tales).
street-to-street adj. (esp. of fighting) taking place in the streets, or from street to street.
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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [adjective] > relating to battles > taking place in the streets
street-to-street1872
1872 Times 30 Mar. 10/2 At last General Denn effected a lodgment in the northern suburb, and then was seen a street-to-street fight, with every house defended in succession.
1945 Finito! Po Valley Campaign (15th Army Group) 33 Street-to-street battles.
1991 Brit. Jrnl. Criminology 21 366 The West Midlands police..planned..street-to-street leafleting campaigns.
2007 Financial Times 28 Apr. 9 Street-to-street fighting is only likely to have hardened opposition to leaders already viewed by many Somalis as Ethiopian and American stooges.
street tough adj. (a) n. a thuggish or aggressive person from an urban environment; (b) adj. toughened by modern urban life; streetwise.
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1890 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Daily Tribune 13 Feb. 2/1 They may endorse the sentiment, but none save the bar room bum and street tough would endorse the language used.
1964 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 15 114 [It] included a number of disgruntled former supporters..and a good number of professional street toughs.
1972 P. Weissman Lords of Power i. 12 She was born street tough.
2004 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 19 Nov. c5/2 No longer the street tough who once threatened cop killings on ‘Deep Cover’, he's more the blue-collar uncle.
2007 Ottawa Sun (Nexis) 15 Jan. 22 When she becomes pregnant her father throws her out of the house and she's forced to move in with..her gay street-tough cousin.
street tree n. a tree planted at the side of a street or in a public place to enhance the view.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > cultivated or valued > [noun] > ornamental
furniture-tree1664
street tree1841
ornamental1903
specimen tree1933
1841 J. Grigor Eastern Arboretum 299 It [sc. the elm] is one of our street trees, stationed generally beside ancient public buildings.
1911 W. Solotaroff Shade-trees in Towns & Cities p. ix This book treats particularly of the planting and care of street-trees.
1981 Garden (Royal Hort. Soc.) 106 443/2 They [sc. local authorities] might be persuaded to plant street trees.
2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Aug. d8/4 New York will also sponsor seminars on how to inventory neighborhood street trees.
street urchin n. now chiefly archaic and historical a street child, typically a mischievous little boy.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [noun] > homeless
Jack out of doors1603
stray1649
street boy1796
street urchin1827
Arab1847
street Arab1853
wastrel1877
street person1907
skell1955
scugnizzo1957
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [noun] > street people > children > street-child
blackguard1699
street girl1764
street boy1796
mudlark1814
street urchin1827
gamin1832
street child1839
Arab1847
street Arab1853
muckworm1859
scuttler1867
gutter-snipec1869
gutter-child1870
gavroche1876
gutter-snippet1891
voyoua1896
street kid1910
dead-end kid1928
gurrier1936
1827 T. Carlyle tr. J. A. Musæus in German Romance I. 200 The crash was prodigious; all..was scattered away, and the street-urchins joyfully divided the booty.
1849 C. J. Lever Confessions Con Cregan I. viii. 96 What a fellow am I..to discourse in this strain to a street urchin.
1978 J. Krantz Scruples vi. 168 Jake..had a droll and artful street-urchin look to him.
2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Sept. 20/4 Most of the principals are as much case histories as characters—street urchins and tough whores radicalized by their situation.
street value n. the price something, esp. a quantity of drugs, would fetch if sold illicitly.
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1922 Fresno (Calif.) Bee 10 Nov. 10/1 A..steerage cook..was caught aboard the vessel with opium, morphine and cocaine in his possession which carried a street value of $75,000.
1971 Times 16 Feb. 6/5 He put the street value of the cocaine at $1.5m.
1997 L. Carcaterra Apaches i. ii. 33 He made sure no one knew more about guns, from make and caliber to crate price and street value.
street village n. [after German Straßendorf, as used by historians, geographers, etc. (1895 or earlier)] (esp. in Germany) a long, narrow village formed of buildings along either side of a main street.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > village > [noun] > other types of village
post village1673
mill village1834
lake-settlement1863
pile village1863
lake-village1865
lake-hamlet1878
pile settlement1878
garden village1892
tree-village1901
model village1906
street village1928
strategic hamlet1963
1928 J. W. Thompson Feudal Germany p. xxiii (caption) Ground plan of a typical ‘street’ village.
1949 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 39 261 Street Villages (Strassendörfer), the name being used only for those villages which were founded on an existing route.
1974 C. Taylor Fieldwork in Medieval Archaeol. vi. 142 Caxton..is now a long street village on either side of the Old North Road.
2001 Canad. Geographic Nov. 84/1 Their Strassendorf (‘street village’ in High German) would be planned according to strict centuries-old customs developed in eastern Europe and Russia.
street virus n. [after French virus des rues (1889 or earlier)] Medicine rabies virus isolated directly from a person or animal suffering from the disease; a virulent wild-type rabies virus (esp. as distinguished from a virus attenuated in culture).
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1887 Lancet 1 Jan. 50/2 Infection with the fresh virus of street rabies.]
1890 Public Health 2 320/1 Repeated hypodermic injections of ‘street’ virus afforded protection against the same virus and against intracranial injections with the strongest cultivated virus.
1930 T. G. Hull Dis. transmitted from Animals to Man ix. 146 Three control dogs, unprotected by vaccine were similarly infected with street virus.
1984 M. J. Taussig Processes in Pathol. & Microbiol. (ed. 2) iii. 349 Pasteur attempted to prepare a vaccine strain which would be both milder than the wild type, so-called ‘street virus’, and have a shorter incubation period.
street warden n. (a) a person appointed to watch over a street, or to look out for specific problems in a street or streets; (b) an air-raid warden assigned to a particular street or streets.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > others concerned with military affairs > [noun] > air-raid warden, fire-watcher, etc.
fire-watcher1830
street warden1835
air warden1933
air raid warden1936
warden1936
paraspotter1940
roof-spotter1940
roof-watcher1940
society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > warden
street warden1973
1835 1st Rep. Commissioners Munic. Corporations Eng. & Wales App. ii. 1095 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 116) XXIII. 133 The Street Wardens remove nuisances and obstructions in the street, and notice offenders.
1894 W. R. Lethaby & H. Swainson Church Sancta Sophia 11 [Region 1] is under one curator, who looks after the whole region; it has..5 street wardens, who watch the city at night.
1936 Times 25 Apr. 7 Air raid precaution schemes... A register is to be opened of persons willing to act as ‘street wardens’ to see that every house-holder..has made arrangements for making one room gas proof.
1940 N. Last Diary Oct. in Nella Last's War (1983) 78 Our street warden called tonight... He wanted to know if we had buckets, stirrup-pumps, blankets, bandages, [etc.].
1973 Daily Tel. 8 Jan. 2/2 Mrs Green said her organisation wanted street wardens whose job ‘for perhaps £1 a week’ would be to call on old people each morning.
2007 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 6 Aug. 5 The local street warden had also voiced concerns about vandalism and anti-social behaviour.
street web n. regional (now historical) a ‘web’ of street gossip.
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > gossiping > gossip
jowl?c1225
trattle1513
tittle-tattle1570
tattle1583
clatter1596
street web1614
town talk1642
street-threada1661
clash1685
fetch-fire1784
street yarn1800
gossip1811
village gossip1847
Russian scandal1861
chopsing1879
cooze1880
reportage1881
skeet1900
scuttlebutt gossip1901
pussy-talk1937
mauvais languec1945
comess1970
he-say-she-say1972
gyaff1975
skinder1979
goss1985
gist1990
1614 J. Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue iv. 135 Nor trip from feast to feast, nor Street-webs span, To see, and to be seen of every, man.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 275 Spinning street-webs, walking about idly, gossiping from house to house. ‘She has nothing better to do than spinning street-webs.’
2000 A. Fox Oral & Literate Culture in Eng.,1500–1700 340 Spinners of street webs abound in the records of the period as officials frowned on the disquiet and dissent which they tended to leave in their wake.
street woman n. a woman working or living in the streets; spec. = streetwalker n. 2.
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1807 Salmagundi 19 Sept. 286 Like the street women of this country, who after a prodigious scolding, quietly sit down and fan themselves cool.
1857 Rep. Lunatic Asylums in Scotl. 446 I have had street-women, in a beastly state of intoxication, for perhaps three weeks.
1863 V. Penny Employments of Women 162 The number of street women engaged in the sale of curds, was one hundred.
1960 R. Davies Voice from Attic iv. 124 Compare Mayhew on prostitution in London, including his verbatim reports of what street women told him.
2005 L. Leblanc Pretty in Punk viii. 226 Explorations of prostitutes and ‘street women’ expand our knowledge of women's and girls' motivations for engaging in such activities.
street worker n. (a) a person who works on the streets; (b) (originally North American) a social worker whose main concern is with juveniles and young offenders.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > social service or work > social worker > types of
street worker1855
settler1884
welfare worker1886
welfare manager1904
caseworker1907
social caseworker1917
welfare1960
youth worker1976
1855 W. B. Jerrold Imperial Paris 246 There is another class of street-workers which every Paris visitor has noticed.
1904 Polit. Sci. Q. 19 418 This typical street worker [sc. the newsboy] was ignored in all the state laws which protect other child workers.
1958 Times 3 Apr. 11/6 Welfare street workers, having gained the confidence of the gangs, do what they can to divert their imaginations and abundant energies into more healthy pursuits.
1969 D. R. Cressey Theft of Nation xii. 302 Its attempt to distinguish street workers in bet-taking operations from..management personnel.
1973 ‘J. Patrick’ Glasgow Gang Observed xxi. 219 Adolescents..did not know how to react to the non-evaluative, non-judgmental approach of the street worker.
2007 Boston Globe (Nexis) 4 Sept. b1 Girls have formed gangs and rivalries so bitter that street workers have had to intervene.
street yarn n. regional (now chiefly U.S.) talk or tales ‘spun’ in the street, street gossip (cf. street web n.).
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > gossiping > gossip
jowl?c1225
trattle1513
tittle-tattle1570
tattle1583
clatter1596
street web1614
town talk1642
street-threada1661
clash1685
fetch-fire1784
street yarn1800
gossip1811
village gossip1847
Russian scandal1861
chopsing1879
cooze1880
reportage1881
skeet1900
scuttlebutt gossip1901
pussy-talk1937
mauvais languec1945
comess1970
he-say-she-say1972
gyaff1975
skinder1979
goss1985
gist1990
1800 J. Gilpin Toddy-Mill 3 A lazy, idle dog was he;..He'd spin street-yarn from morn to night, And reel it up and down.
1816 Rhode-Island Republican 28 Feb. 4/1 I guess the man is a horse jockey, and the woman a spinner of street yarn.
1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. 403 It's a shame to see that great wench spinnin' street yarn awile the poor owd mother's lef' to do all the work.
1912 H. E. Rives Valiants Virginia (2004) 206 That woman's housemaid-silly. She can spin more street yarn than any ten in the county.
?1994 V. Walden Under Constr. 166 How to make a scandal. Take a grain of falsehood... Cork it up tight in a bottle of malevolence and hang it out on a skein of street yarn.

Derivatives

street-like adj.
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1595 E. C. Emaricdulfe xxi. sig. B6 Through street-like straight hie-waies I did attempt.
1839 W. H. Ainsworth Jack Sheppard I. i. vii. 128 The houses were older..and the thoroughfare narrower;..but the bustle, the crowd, the street-like air was the same.
2006 Kansas City (Missouri) Star (Nexis) 21 May b2 The Penn Valley skateboard park is 10,000 square feet and features a 10-foot-deep bowl and concrete benches, picnic tables and other streetlike features.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

streetv.

Brit. /striːt/, U.S. /strit/
Forms: see street n. and adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: street n.
Etymology: < street n.
1. transitive. Chiefly in passive. To provide (a city, town, etc.) with streets; to lay out in streets. Also in extended use. Now rare. to street out: to lay out as a street or road.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > lay out as a street [verb (transitive)] > provide with streets
street1555
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > lay out as a street [verb (transitive)]
to street out1760
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions i. iv. sig. Cvv The chiefe citie..strieted with tentes and pauilions placed in good ordre [L. tabernaculis in ordinem digestis].
1585 J. Sharrock tr. C. Ocland Valiant Actes & Victorious Battailes Eng. Nation i. sig. a Proud pompous London streated brode.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xi. 22 There are few places this side the Alps better built, and so well Streeted as this.
1760 in Weekly Reporter (1877) 21 Apr. 470/1 The said [allottees] shall street out the same way leading through their said respective allotments so that the same shall be made and ever after remain eleven yards broad at the least.
1895 Times 14 Mar. 7/5 Millions have been raised in rates..the whole of which has been spent in watching, lighting, sewering, embanking, streeting, and otherwise improving London.
1897 A. H. Marks Igerne & Other Writings 242 It is streeted with canals, whose tawny waters are disturbed only by slowly moving barges.
1952 C. Rodgers R. Moses in Amer. Acad. Polit. & Soc. Sci. (1956) 307 160 Probably no man living has..‘streeted’ more wide waters, made more bricks climb skyward, [etc.].
1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 4 Dec. x. 47/1 You can see all the land developments on Great Exuma, neatly streeted and planned, but never built up.
2. transitive. Australian. Sport. To defeat by a large margin. Cf. by a street at street n. and adj. Phrases 6d.
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1975 Pigeon Fancier Jan.–Feb. 7 The father-and-son combination ‘streeted’ their rivals..with a total of 11 points.
1983 Runner's World Jan. 11/3 The favourite in the women's 400 hurdles ‘streeted’ the opposition and bagged a Commonwealth record.
2003 Gold Coast Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 24 Feb. 27 Northcliffe set an all-time winning margin record in the patrol competition streeting the field by a record 15 points.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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