(abbreviation St, st) a public road in a city or town that has houses and buildings on one side or both sides:
The bank is just across the street. * to walk along / down / up the street * the town's narrow cobbled streets * 92nd Street * 10 Downing Street * He is used to being recognized in the street. * a street map / plan of York * street theatre / musicians * My office is at street level (= on the ground floor). * It's not safe to walk the streets at night. * It was time to take the political struggle onto the streets (= by protesting in large groups in the streets of a city).
seealsoBACKSTREET, HIGHSTREET, SIDESTREET -< ROAD
IDIOMS
(out) on the streets / street (informal) without a home; outside, not in a house or other building:
the problems of young people living on the streets * If it had been left to me I would have put him out on the street long ago.
on / walking the streets working as a prostitute
streets ahead (of sb/sth) (BrE, informal) much better or more advanced than sb/sth else:
a country that is streets ahead in the control of environmental pollution * Beth is streets ahead of all the other students in her year.
the streets are paved with gold (saying) used to say that it seems easy to make money in a place
(right) up your street (especially BrE) (AmE usually )right( up your alley) (informal) very suitable for you because it is sth that you know a lot about or are very interested in:
This job seems right up your street.
moreatEASYadj., HITv., MANn.
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