STREET
ADJECTIVES
1883 ► QUADRIVIOUS having four ways meeting in one point; going in four directions, as a street
ADVERBS
1941 ► CATERWAY diagonally across an intersection of two streets → Amer. dial.
NOUNS
1357 ► CARFAX → CARFOX a place where four roads, streets, or ways meet
1435 ► VENNEL a narrow lane, passage, or thoroughfare in a town or city; an alley or wynd → chiefly Sc.
1477 ► CARFOUR → CARREFOUR → QUARREFOUR a place where four roads, streets, or ways meet → obs.
1567 ► JAMB an angular turn or corner in a street or way → obs.
1715 ► HEAD the higher end of a place, the upper part of a street; a hill or eminence → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1772 ► NARROW a narrow part of a street
1777 ► REW the shady side of a street → Eng. dial.
19C.. ► AIN’T IT A TREAT a street → Brit. rhyming sl.
19C.. ► MASON→ MASON LINE. a town’s main street, esp. when it delineates the line between the Black and White communities → African-American sl.
19C.. ► RUELLE in France, a small street; a lane, an alley
1835 ► SCORE a narrow street on a slope; a gangway down a cliff; a cutting through a ridge of hills → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1845 ► STREETOLOGY science or knowledge of the streets of a town → obs.
1851 ► DRAG a street or road, esp. a major urban street → UK sl.
1857 ► PLATE OF MEAT a street → rhyming sl.
1862 ► THROUGH-GANG a thoroughfare; a passage → Sc.
1878 ► PARKWAY a broad street or highway laid out with strips of lawn, often planted with trees or shrubs → Amer. dial.
1897 ► THROUGH-GOING a thoroughfare; a passage → Sc.
L19.. ► BACK ALLEY the main street of an otherwise run-down or ‘red-light’ area → African-American sl.
L19.. ► DEAD NUMBER the last house in a row or street; the end of a street → sl.
1900 ► (THE)MAIN STEM the main street of a town; the ‘main drag’ → Amer. sl.
1900 ► ENTANY an ‘entry,’ main doorway of a house; a narrow passage or by-street → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1902 ► WHITE WAY a brilliantly lit city street → US
1905 ► THROUGH a thoroughfare; a public way → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► YAWNUPS’S CORNER the corner of the streets were the boys congregate → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1907 ► IRISHMAN’S SIDEWALK the street; the centre of the street → Amer. dial.
1914 ► STEM a street frequented by vagrants → US sl.
1920 ► GUT the main street → US sl.
1950 ► DECK the street → African-American sl.
1973 ► BLOW-UP a hole or depression in a street or road → Amer. dial.
1975 ► BATTER a street running up a hillside, usually rather narrow → Amer. dial.
1980 ► FANCY STROLL the main street on which the high life happens → African-American sl.
1981 ► GUTTER the street → Amer. dial.
NOUNS, PERSON
1594 ► STREET the people living in a street → colloq.
1836 ► GALOPIN a roving youngster, a street-arab → Sc. obs.
1940 ► CURFLOOZIE a woman wandering the streets → World War II Amer. sl.
1940 ► SMACKO a street person; an unemployed person; a hoodlum → African-American sl.
1942 ► BOULEVARDIER a man who picks up women on the streets → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1987 ► SPACER a streetwise young person → Irish sl.
1990 ► O.G. a veteran of the streets (Original Gangster) → African-American sl.
1993 ► YOYO BOY a street youth → African-American sl.
1993 ► YOYO GIRL a street youth → African-American sl.
2000 ► VENT MAN a tramp; a street person → US sl.
VERBS
1865 ► HAUSSMANNIZE to open out, widen, and straighten streets, and generally rebuild (after the fashion in which Baron Haussman [1853-1870] rebuilt a great part of Paris)
L19.. ► BUZZ THE MAIN STEM to be along a town’s main street → sl.
L19.. ► MOOCH THE MAIN STEM to be along a town’s main street → sl.
L19.. ► WORK THE MAIN STEM to be along a town’s main street → sl.
1900 ► GALLOP to run about the streets → Ireland (Bk.)
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