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stroll
noun
▶ The Stroll
Seventh Avenue, New York US- [S]pecific places are known by special nicknames–New York City as the Apple, Seventh Avenue as The Stroll[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 221, 1946
▶ the stroll
the collective activities on a street, mostly illegal, some
involving sauntering as if innocently strolling US- My education was completed on The Stroll and I became a Negro. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 210, 1946
- Hello Mayann. What in the world are you doing out on the stroll tonight? — Louis Armstrong, Satchmo, p. 200, 1954
- She showed me where the stroll was in town. — Susan Hall, Gentleman of Leisure, p. 17, 1972
- In New York, there are three different big strolls—places where prostitutes go to work. — Susan Hall, Ladies of the Night, p. 13, 1973
- The stroll at the four corners of Hollywood and Vine was doing business, drugs and booze and flesh. — Robert Campbell, Alice in La-La Land, p. 8, 1987
- The area is also a “stroll” for prostitutes. — James Ridgeway, Red Light, p. 228, 1996
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