street corner
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- noun
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- A young woman is standing on the street corner waiting for a bus.
- standing on a street corner
- meet on a street corner
- sold on street corners
You can buy weed in a store and cookies on the street corner guys.
- You can buy weed in a store and cookies on the street corner guys.
- You'll see like the street corners of Lillington, NC.
- He recruited a few people to stand in the street corner and point at nothing in the sky.
- My dad sold, like, kitchenware on the street corners.
- They are the most ordinary run-of-the-mill, could find them at any street corner in any city, in any state in the country.
- A minority is defined as, you know, two or three people on a street corner, doesn't matter what they look like, doesn't matter where they came from.
- That's really good actually, as I actually do that because that street corner doesn't own you, right.
- It's like when you have, you know, like these old timey, they stand on the street corner and they sing words.
- Oh my God, look at that Lady, she looks like she should be on a street corner.
- There's a couple of girlfriends that just like young youngsters meeting on a street corner.
- Or she's with her mum or she's on the phone, she's on a street corner, she might say no to me, blah, blah, blah.
- And these were people who when they were teenagers were mini gangsters, street corner villains, maybe selling a few ounces of this, few ounces of that.
Examples
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There are food vendors set up on almost every street corner in the city.
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Further, rap is performed on street corners, at large-scale public performances, and is recorded for commercial distribution.
Academic text (1996) -
Early that first month of the transfer, I stood on a quiet street corner after school.
Fiction book (1991) -
One afternoon, she stands on a street corner, hiding herself in the pouring rain.
Fiction book (1994) -
But when they put five people on the street corner, about half of the pedestrians stopped.
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They'll put it on every street corner.
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The only people that these young people who are loitering on the street corner see that represent institutions are the police officer.
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They are the most ordinary run-of-the-mill, could find them at any street corner in any city, in any state in the country.
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A mother is waiting on a street corner for her child to get out of school.
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The children played games at the street corner while waiting for the bus.
Synonyms
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The place where two walls or edges meet
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A place where two roads or streets cross
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A place where two or more roads meet
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A place where one road crosses another
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A place where two or more roads cross
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the place where two streets meet' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'street' (a public road) with 'corner' (a point where lines or surfaces meet). This straightforward noun–noun location construction is cross-linguistically common and follows regular compositional patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Street corner joins street and corner to name the place where two roads meet. Because this is a small, clear spot people can see, it became the usual place to 'meet' or 'wait', so street corner means that exact meeting or waiting point in a town or city.