guerrilla theater street theater | dramatization of a social issue, enacted outside in a park or on the street |
alley alleyway back street | a narrow street with walls on both sides |
barrel organ grind organ hand organ hurdy gurdy hurdy-gurdy street organ | a musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs |
blind alley cul de sac dead-end street impasse | a street with only one way in or out |
corner street corner turning point | the intersection of two streets, standing on the corner watching all the girls go by |
cross street | a street intersecting a main street (usually at right angles) and continuing on both sides of it |
drug of abuse street drug | a drug that is taken for nonmedicinal reasons (usually for mind-altering effects), drug abuse can lead to physical and mental damage and (with some substances) dependence and addiction |
local road local street | a street that is primarily used to gain access to the property bordering it |
main street high street | street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town |
one-way street | a street on which vehicular traffic is allowed to move in only one direction |
side street | a street intersecting a main street and terminating there |
street | a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings, they walked the streets of the small town, he lives on Nassau Street |
street | the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks, the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel, be careful crossing the street |
street clothes | ordinary clothing suitable for public appearances (as opposed to costumes or sports apparel or work clothes etc.) |
streetlight street lamp | a lamp supported on a lamppost, for illuminating a street |
two-way street | a street on which vehicular traffic can move in either of two directions, you have to look both ways crossing a two-way street |
street credibility street cred cred | credibility among young fashionable urban individuals |
street smarts | a shrewd ability to survive in a dangerous urban environment |
one-way street | unilateral interaction, cooperation cannot be a one-way street |
Fleet Street | British journalism |
street name | the name of a street |
street name | the name of a brokerage firm in which stock is held on behalf of a customer, all my stocks are held in street name |
street name | slang for something (especially for an illegal drug), `smack' is a street name for heroin |
street name | an alternative name that a person chooses or is given (especially in inner city neighborhoods), her street name is Bonbon |
street sign | a sign visible from the street |
Downing Street | the British government |
Wall Street the Street | used to allude to the securities industry of the United States |
street | people living or working on the same street, the whole street protested the absence of street lights |
Grub Street | the world of literary hacks |
street address | the address where a person or organization can be found |
Fleet Street | a street in central London where newspaper offices are situated |
Harley Street | a street in central London where the consulting rooms of many physicians and surgeons are located |
Lombard Street | a street in central London containing many of the major London banks |
Main Street | any small town (or the people who inhabit it), generally used to represent parochialism and materialism (after a novel by Sinclair Lewis), Main Street will never vote for a liberal politician |
Downing Street | a street of Westminster in London, the Prime Minister lives at No.Downing Street |
Wall Street Wall St. | a street in lower Manhattan where the New York Stock Exchange is located, symbol of American finance |
dosser street person | someone who sleeps in any convenient place |
John Doe Joe Blow Joe Bloggs man in the street | a hypothetical average man |
c prostitute cocotte whore harlot bawd tart cyprian fancy woman working girl sporting lady lady of pleasure woman of the street | a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money |
street cleaner street sweeper | a worker employed to clean streets (especially one employed by a municipal sanitation department) |
street fighter tough | someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing |
street fighter | a contestant who is very aggressive and willing to use underhand methods |
street urchin guttersnipe | a child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas |
street arab gamin throwaway | (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets |
streetwalker street girl hooker hustler floozy floozie slattern | a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets |
waif street child | a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned, street children beg or steal in order to survive |
easy street | financial security |
street | a situation offering opportunities, he worked both sides of the street, cooperation is a two-way street |
street | the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction, she tried to keep her children off the street |
street-walk streetwalk | walk the streets in search of customers, The prostitute is street-walking every night |