street
adjective/striːt/
/striːt/
- [only before noun] working, living or taking place on the streets of a city; based on the daily life of ordinary people in cities
- street vendors selling fruit, snacks and local handicrafts
- street musicians
- street kids
- angry street protests/demonstrations
- street sports such as skateboarding and skating
- street newspapers sold by people who are homeless
- street culture/dance/law
- Street sport is informal and based on whatever people want to play.
Extra Examples- He pleaded guilty to illegal street trading.
- the street culture of working-class youth
- The charity is having a street collection in aid of the local hospital.
- people engaged in informal street selling
- Tourists need to be wary of street hustlers near the station.
- The show is about two rival street gangs in Manhattan.
- Violent street crime has become an epidemic.
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- showing or connected with the attitude and way of life of fashionable young people in cities
- London street style
- You're not very street in those old trainers.
Word OriginOld English strǣt, of West Germanic origin, from late Latin strāta (via) ‘paved (way)’, feminine past participle of sternere ‘lay down’.
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