(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ is a road in a city, town, or village, usually with houses along it.
He lived at 66 Bingfield Street...
Boppard is a small, quaint town with narrow ~s.
N-COUNT; N-IN-NAMES
2.
You can use ~ or ~s when talking about activities that happen out of doors in a town rather than inside a building.
Changing money on the ~ is illegal-always use a bank...
Their aim is to raise a million pounds to get the homeless off the ~s.
...a New York ~ gang.
N-COUNT: the N, usu on/off N
3.
see also back ~ , civvy ~ , Downing Street , Fleet Street , high ~ , Wall Street
4.
If someone is ~s ahead of you, they are much better at something than you are.
He was ~s ahead of the other contestants.
PHRASE: usu v-link PHR, oft PHR of n
5.
If you talk about the man in the ~ or the man or woman in the ~, you mean ordinary people in general.
The average man or woman in the ~ doesn’t know very much about immune disorders.
PHRASE
6.
If a job or activity is up your ~, it is the kind of job or activity that you are very interested in. (BRIT; in AM, use up your alley)
She loved it, this was just up her ~.
PHRASE: usu v-link PHR