Acacia Avenue

American  

noun

British Facetious.

1. any middle-class suburban street.

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Example Sentences

When police officers responded to the area of Acacia Avenue and Baseline Street shortly before 9 a.m., they encountered immigration agents who said they had fired at a suspect who then fled the scene.

From Los Angeles Times

Standing outside her apartment complex at the corner of Acacia Avenue and 120th Street, just across from where the truck had been stopped, Maria Perez, 68, a Cuban and American citizen, smoked a cigarette with a neighbor.

From Los Angeles Times

At the corner of 119th Street and Acacia Avenue, where Spanish Mass at St. Joseph Catholic Church can pull in about 1,000 parishioners, Father Arturo Velascos said it was unclear what effect the June 1 incident, and other immigration raids, will have on attendance.

From Los Angeles Times

Shortly after 7:15 a.m., deputies responded to a call at an apartment complex in the 100 block of Acacia Avenue in Compton, where they found a man with a gunshot wound and determined that another man was hiding inside an apartment with a firearm, officials said.

From Los Angeles Times

The Honda driver, last seen heading eastbound on the 91 Freeway, west of Acacia Avenue, has not been apprehended.

From Los Angeles Times