street
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (specifically, US) The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.USspecifically
2. Metonymic senses:Examples: "Orders were reported to have increased 2% monthly, ahead of the 1.2% expected by the street."; "Professional services and other revenue made up $577 million, edging out street estimates for $541.4 million."abbreviationalt-ofellipsis
3. (attributive) Living in the streets.Examples: "a street cat"; "a street urchin"attributive
4. (slang, uncountable) Streetwise slang.Examples: "Toaster is street for guns."slanguncountable
5. (slang, in the plural) People in general, as a source of information.Examples: "Streets say something's happening tomorrow."in-pluralslang
6. (figuratively) A great distance.Examples: "He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school."; "England were once again static in their few attacks, only Tuilagi's bullocking runs offering any threat, Flood reduced to aiming a long-range drop-goal pit which missed by a street."figuratively
adj (English)
1. (slang) Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.Examples: "Eric had to admit that she looked street—upscale street, but still street. Kayla's look tended to change with the seasons; at the moment it was less Goth than paramilitary, with laced jump boots."slang
verb (English)
1. (sports, by extension) To heavily defeat.Examples: "Wearing his custom-made silks, McCarthy duly rode the horse a treat as they streeted the opposition and helped connections clean up the bookies."; "But when I came back in Round 14, the team had lost only two of those previous 13 games, we were sitting with Melbourne at the top of the premiership table and the two clubs had virtually streeted the rest of the competition."; "Pennant winners Kansas City and nearest rivals St. Paul had streeted the Western League in 1901, but were brought back to the field in 1902 by a powerful Omaha outfit who just missed out on the pennant, their .600 win-loss percentage just outdone by Kansas City's .603."broadly
2. (Japanese Mormonism) To proselytize in public.Examples: "A person I met streeting in Osaka told me the above Kanji examples as well as many others that I have since forgot."; "Although streeting or tracting, as the first two contacting methods are known, tend to produce negligible results when seen through a broad sociological lens, there was often something about meeting American missionaries that appealed to our Japanese Latter-day Saints."; "They streeted the rest of the afternoon, and each picked up an intro lesson. They went back to the church after dinner."JapaneseMormonism
name (English)
1. (countable) A surname.countable
Definition source: Wiktionary