NOUN
- the name of a street
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an alternative name that a person chooses or is given (especially in inner city neighborhoods)
her street name is Bonbon -
the name of a brokerage firm in which stock is held on behalf of a customer
all my stocks are held in street name -
slang for something (especially for an illegal drug)
`smack' is a street name for heroin
How To Use street name In A Sentence
- TomTom's app doesn't have live traffic information, doesn't provide a text summary of your planned route, doesn't announce street names and doesn't integrate control of the iPhone's music player.
- One of the joys of being a rural county councillor is online access to the 1880 and 1905 OS maps which can be overlaid on the current OS map; thus arguments over should it be ‘the Strand’ or ‘Strand’ have been resolved for a parish council, and old street names have been resurrected and given to new developments on the site where they ran. Satnav, democracy and dumbing down
- People also felt the strong Western influence in the four types of signage in foreign languages that were erected around the city - street names, traffic direction signs, shop signboards and billboards.
- The real world - the mud on the ground, the stones, the sprouting grass - are not captured by the street name.
- For me, one of the principal charms of New York City is that it is home to some of the greatest jazz figures in history, who are commemorated with plaques, signs or street names in neighbourhoods where they lived.
- Everybody, of course, is aware that Professor Joff committed one of his notorious "howlers" when he derived "Carmelite" -- in the street name -- from "Cromwell's Heights. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914
- For the lucky few, a job with a big international house or high-street name beckons. Times, Sunday Times
- A string of high street names also littered the Footsie fallers board.
- Some high-street names are certainly well set up to do so. Times, Sunday Times
- Researchers at the Catholic University of Louvain got an unprecedented up-close look at a different breed of the sharks, which are known by either their scientific name -- Etmopterus spinax, their common name -- the velvet belly lantern shark, or their street name -- "the phantom hunter of the fjords," according to Discovery News. Lantern Sharks Can Become Invisible, Glow-In-The-Dark
