main drag

noun

Slang.

1. the main street of a city or town; main stem.

Word History and Origins

Origin of main drag¹

First recorded in 1850–55

Idioms and Phrases

The principal street of a city or town, as in Several stores on the main drag have closed. This slangy term was first recorded in 1851.

Example Sentences

On Wednesday, gleaming Lincoln Navigators and Cadillac Escalades cruised down a main drag, past tidy green lawns before disappearing into residential communities hidden behind sand-colored gates.

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Her hometown in northeast Oregon was not long ago known for a former chemical-weapons depot nearby, a state prison on the city’s outskirts and the strip clubs once dotting its main drag.

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There are clapboard houses, a main drag with businesses bearing charming vintage patina and lampposts bearing flags of the town's military veterans.

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When then-President Bill Clinton announced the end of a U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam in 1994, hundreds of people rallied on Bolsa Avenue, Little Saigon’s main drag, to decry the decision.

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More than a decade of homelessness followed, at times spent sleeping in a median strip that stretches along the neighborhood’s main drag.

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