Meaning of walk the streets | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To walk about in a city or town, especially as an activity in itself.
2. To be free to move about in a city or town.
3. To be unemployed; to be looking for work.
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4. To prostitute.

Examples

“The art of walking the streets, if it was ever known, is a lost art in America.”

“At first, I just spent most of the day walking the streets, pushing my baby around with me from one sister's house to another.”

“So after the Beatles bit we walked the streets of Hamburg for a while, amazed at the vibrancy of the place.”

“Doctor, you have stated that you assumed that there are many people walking the streets who are neurotic.”

“2007, Martha C. Reith, Highlights in History: 1900-1939, Remedia Publications, page 10, His business was crime, yet he walked the streets of Chicago with no fear of punishment.”

“Probably at the age of eleven, when he should be at school, he is driven into the workshop and a journeyman is allowed to walk the streets, because a great deal that he does can be done by the apprentice.”

“Trade conditions in Waco are dull just now and we have a number of our union men walking the streets.”

“I hold a letter from an Imperial Veteran telling me "returned men who fought to save the empire are walking the streets of the Pacific Coast cities starving,"[…].”

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