street v.
1. (US Und.) to throw someone out, e.g. of a bar; thus streeted.
Appleton Post-Crescent (WI) 13 May 7/1: Flapper Dictionary streeted – Boy who gets thrown out on the street for taking punch at a rival. | ||
Phila. Eve. Bulletin 5 Oct. 40/5: Here are a few more terms and definitions from the ‘Racket’ vocabulary: [...] ‘street,’ to eject. |
2. (US Und.) to guide a victim away from the site of a confidence trick.
Big Con 308: To street. To get a mark out of a store. |
3. (US Und.) to release a prisoner.
Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 85: Even if Carver did street him, Bear would be eighty-six all over town. |
4. (Aus.) e,g, of competing racehorses, to leave in a line behind one.
Up the Cross 41: ‘Will we street this field, Pig Iron Bob. Come on baby’. | (con. 1959)||
Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 206: ‘Oh you friggin’ little ripper. Will we street this fuckin’ buncha dromedaries, Bobby-boy’. |
In derivatives
(US) a ‘chucker-out’ working in a bar, casino, brothel or similar establishment.
Inter-Ocean (Chicago) 4 Mar. 13/3: There are at least eight men on the outside, bouncers, streeters and pluggers . |