street

1. street (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.

Example: Walk down the street until you see a hotel on the right.

2. street (noun) — sense 2

Definition: A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.

Example: I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.

3. street (noun) — sense 3

Definition: The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.

4. street (adj) — sense 1

Definition: Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.

Example: Eric had to admit that she looked street—upscale street, but still street. Kayla's look tended to change with the seasons; at the moment it was less Goth than paramilitary, with laced jump boots.

5. street (verb) — sense 1

Definition: To build or equip with streets.

Example: There are few places on this ſide the Alps better built, and ſo well Streeted as this, and none at all ſo well girt with Baſtions and Ramparts, which in ſome places are ſo ſpacious, that they uſually take the Air in Coaches upon the very Walls, which are beautified with divers rows of Trees and pleaſant Walks.

6. street (verb) — sense 2

Definition: To eject; to throw onto the streets.

Example: Stage doormen and all sorts of doormen are very quick at streeting a man who won't move fast. I know a well-known Irishman who at a New York theatre was streeted just because he was insisting on getting in when the house was apparently booked out.

7. street (verb) — sense 3

Definition: To heavily defeat.

Example: Wearing his custom-made silks, McCarthy duly rode the horse a treat as they streeted the opposition and helped connections clean up the bookies.