Downing Street |
the elected government of Great Britain, so termed because 10 Downing Street is the residence of the prime minister. |
Fleet Street |
the journalism establishment in London, England, so called after the street on which many newspaper offices are located. |
high street |
(chiefly British) the main commercial street of a town where many shops and other businesses are located. |
man in the street |
a common, ordinary man; average citizen (usu. understood to include women). |
stop street |
a street having one or more intersections at which vehicles must come to a complete stop before continuing through the intersection. |
street people |
people with no permanent address who live in the streets and other public areas; homeless persons. [2 definitions] |
street smarts |
(informal) awareness, craftiness, or shrewdness in handling people or situations found in city environments where crime and poverty are extensive. |
street theater |
a dramatization, usu. presented on the street or in a park by a traveling group, having a political or social issue as its theme. |
streetlamp |
a light illuminating a road or street, typically mounted on a tall pole. |
streetwise |
informed about what goes on and highly adapted for survival in a city, esp. the more sordid sections; street-smart. |
Wall Street |
a lower Manhattan street in New York City that is the chief financial center of the United States. [2 definitions] |