English Explanatory Dictionary

on the street

English dictionary entry

Meanings

prep_phrase

Without a home; without the means to afford good shelter.
In public, including daily life and the crime that sometimes occurs there; especially, in the world of street crime and those whose daily life is immersed in it.
In actual practice, as opposed to in a laboratory, classroom, etc.
Working as a sex worker.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, the, street.

Pronunciation

En-au-on the street.ogg

Word forms

on the street on the streets

Synonyms

Related words

in the streets Main Street man on the street mean streets street crime street drug street name street-smart street value streetwalker Wall Street word on the street on the road

← on the spot
← on the square
← on the stand
← on the stock
← on the stocks

on the streets →
on the strength of →
on the stroke of →
on the stump →
on the surface →

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