streets

/stษนiหts/

IPA: /S T R IY1 T S/

noun
  1. 1

    A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.

    โ€œWalk down the street until you see a hotel on the right.โ€

  2. 2

    A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.

    โ€œI live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.โ€

  3. 3

    The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.

  4. 4

    The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities.

  5. 5

    An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.

    โ€œI got some pot cheap on the street.โ€

  6. 6

    Streetwise slang.

  7. 7

    A great distance.

    โ€œHe's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.โ€

  8. 8

    Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.

  9. 9

    Living in the streets.

    โ€œa street cat; a street urchinโ€

  10. 10

    (urban toponymy) By restriction, the streets that run perpendicular to avenues.

verb
  1. 1

    To build or equip with streets.

  2. 2

    To eject; to throw onto the streets.

  3. 3

    (by extension) To heavily defeat.

  4. 4

    To go on sale.

  5. 5

    To proselytize in public.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/street, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/streets