单词 | street people |
释义 | > as lemmasstreet people 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.). ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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