Meaning of street value | Babel Free

Definitions

The price of an illicit drug sold on the street (i.e., on the black market); the price of any illicit thing sold in this way (such as stolen goods being fenced).

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“At the time, the street value of a kilo of cocaine had recently risen to half again the former price, as enforcement cracked down on the supply⟳.”

“It is hard to estimate⟳ the street value of the stolen goods, as such values are constantly shifting as circumstances change⟳, but police estimated that it could not be less than forty thousand dollars.”

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