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side street
noun
- a street leading away from a main street; an unimportant street or one carrying but little traffic.
side street
noun
- a minor or unimportant street, esp one leading off a main thoroughfare
Word History and Origins
Origin of side street1
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 .Example Sentences
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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