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stem
noun- a main street or boulevard, especially one frequented by tramps, prostitutes, pimps, and their ilk US, 1914
- When I hit the main stem, I went down a side street past a little hotel. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 25, 1947
- The southeast corner of 50th Street and Seventh Avenue epitomizes the decline of the Stem. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 35, 1948
- You would also be playing your girl against a half-dozen strong, jasper [lesbian] whores on this ’stem. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 102, 1969
- The stem swirls in a straight line down 47th Street, heading for Buttermilk Bottom, the Fillmore District, Crenshaw, or the dusty, crusty surface of Gwinnett Street in deepest Georgia. — Odie Hawkins, Ghetto Sketches, p. 25, 1972
- Yeah, had I been on the stem during the big burn, I’d be one of the many, many niggers that got over the hump. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 9, 1973
- the dominant culture in a society US
An abbreviation of “system”. - — Bill Valentine, Gang Intelligence Manual, p. 111, 1995
- the penis US
- [N]obody to my knowledge spoke of “choad,” “rod,” stem“ or any other more strictly pornographic term. — Screw, p. 5, 3 January 1972
- a railway track US
- — Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 268, 1946
- a laboratory pipette used to smoke crack cocaine US
- — Terry Williams, Crackhouse, p. 152, 1992
- — US Department of Justice, Street Terms, October 1994
▶ on the stem
performing or inclined to perform oral sex on a man US- — John R. Armore and Joseph D. Wolfe, Dictionary of Desperation, p. 42, 1976
▶ up against the stem
addicted to smoking marijuana UK, 1998
From “stem” (the non-smokeable part of the marijuana plant).- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 292, 2003
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