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side street

noun

  1. a street leading away from a main street; an unimportant street or one carrying but little traffic.


side street

noun

  1. a minor or unimportant street, esp one leading off a main thoroughfare


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Word History and Origins

Origin of side street1

First recorded in 1610–20

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Idioms and Phrases

A minor thoroughfare that carries little traffic, as in Our favorite hotel is on a quiet little side street . The side in this idiom means “off to one side, away from the main street.” [c. 1600] Also see back street .

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Example Sentences

If you can’t find a decent swell near the pier, head south along Seacoast Drive, where breaks can be found at the end of every side street.

She has found herself padding the commute with extra turns or purposeless drives down side streets — anything to stretch out the time alone.

So drivers make their own — sometimes dangerous — shortcuts down side streets and narrow alleys.

Surely, there’s little risk of getting busted on our side street on a Sunday just before lunch.

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A parklet in Boston being built on a side street near 506 Park Drive From Tampa to Tulsa, Seattle to Syracuse and Brooklyn to Burlington, cities are embracing parklets like never before.

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The Mail says that CCTV shows the taxi pulled into the path of the motorcade from a side street.

The barracks is a squat building surrounded by sandbags on a side street near the city center.

They would have had better luck with a normal poster on the side street behind the square.

Brigitte Höss lives quietly on a leafy side street in Northern Virginia.

The parade took a right onto a side street, and everyone packed in a little closer, so the parade slowed down a bit.

She quite beamed with welcome, and they disentangled themselves into a side street, where there were empty posts.

Mrs. Prentice had run into a quiet side street, not two blocks from the cottage at the foot of Whiffle Street.

He caught a down car and got out just as the first prowl car came sirening its way into the side street curb.

As he followed him on uptown, down his side-street, Lamb had a curious sense of elation.

He turned into a side street, at the corner of which was a broken lamp bracket used for hanging a man not a week ago.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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