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street
noun- the essence of modern urban life for the poor, with suggestions of the underworld or the shadows between the underworld and the legitimate mainstream US, 1967
- — Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys, The Street Giveth and the Street Taketh Away, 1969
- The street is where young bloods get their education. — H. Rap Brown, Die Nigger Die!, p. 25, 1969
- in stud poker, a card US
For example, the fifth card dealt is known as “fifth street”. - — George Percy, The Language of Poker, p. 88, 1988
▶ make the street
to be released from jail US- “We were pinched together, if the punk makes the street I do too.” — Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm, p. 5, 1949
▶ on the street
not imprisoned; released from prison US, 1935- If you ran the names of all the bad guys convicted by Judge Gibbs who are back on the street and wouldn’t mind taking a whack at him, you could paper this room with the printouts. — Elmore Leonard, Maximum Bob, p. 89, 1991
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