street-castingn. selecting amateurs to be
performers or models. I do a lot of
street-casting. Almost everybody can act a
little. Street-casting is fun, and it’s
cheap.
streetern. an urban street person. These
streeters have to be bright and clever just
to survive. A couple of streeters taught
me how to get a meal for nothing.
street peoplen. people who live in the
streets; homeless people. There are a
lot of cold street people at this time of the
year. Some of the street people prefer
that kind of life.
street pushern. a drug dealer who works
at the retail level on the streets. It’s the
street pushers who take the risk and end up
doing a few months in the pen. Bart was
a street pusher until he got busted.
street smartmod. wise in the ways of ur-
ban life; wise in the ways of tough neigh-
borhoods. Freddy was street smart at
age eight. Bess wasn’t street smart
enough to survive by herself.
street smartsn. the knowledge and abil-
ity to survive on the urban street. If
you don’t have street smarts, you won’t last
long out there. You either pick up street
smarts, or you don’t.
street sweepern. a machine gun. In my
neighborhood, the sound of street sweep-
ers is about a common as the sound of
horns honking.
street timen. time not spent in prison.
(Underworld.) I had three months
street time; then they nailed me again.
I want out of this place. I need a little street
time to renew some old acquaintances.
stress 1. in. to suffer annoyance; to expe-
rience stress. I’m stressing again! Please
don’t annoy me! Clare finds that she is
stressing more and more about little things.
- tv. to annoy or bother someone. (See
also stressed.) Don’t stress Wally! He’s
had a hard day. The whole affair about
my beemer stressed me a whole lot.
stressedmod. upset; annoyed. Come on,
man, don’t get stressed! It’s only a gag.
I am really stressed. I need a vacation.
stretch 1. n. a period of time. (Folksy.)
Let’s talk here for a stretch and then go up
and see if dinner’s ready. I sat there for
a stretch and then got up and kept going.- n. a prison term. I was away for a
stretch of about seven years. That’s quite
a stretch for tax evasion. 3. in. to hang (as
with a death sentence). Yo u w i l l s t r e t c h
for this, Lefty! 4. tv. to cut or dilute a
drug. Let’s stretch this stuff, sell it, and
then blow town. 5. n. <a nickname for a
tall person, usually male.> (Usually
Stretch.) Well, stretch, think you’ll go
out for basketball this season?
stretch one’s legstv. to stand up and per-
haps walk about. I need to get out of
here and stretch my legs for a while.
Most of us stood up to stretch our legs at
intermission.
(strictly) from hungermod. very strange;
acceptable only when nothing else is
available. This kind of entertainment
is from hunger. The singer was strictly
from hunger.
striken. a dose of drugs. (Drugs. See also
hit.) I need a strike. You got any stum-
bles? Just one strike, Bart, come on, just
one. I’ll pay you tomorrow, Bart, come on,
just one little strike. Anything, Bart. I
really hurt, Bart.
strike it richtv. to become rich suddenly.
I never thought I would strike it rich.
Pete is the kind of guy who wants to
strike it rich and live in the lap of luxury
for the rest of his life.
strike out 1. in. [for a baseball batter] to
be declared out after three strikes. (Base-
ball.) And so Drew Wilson strikes out
for his second time in this game! He
struck out in the second inning, and man-
ager Willy “Herky” Simpson read him out
then. 2. in. to fail. Well, we struck out
again, but we’ll keep trying. I hear you
struck out on that Acme proposal. Better
luck next time.
strike pay dirtGo to hit pay dirt.
stringbeann. a thin person. (Also a term
of address.) Wow, is he a stringbean.
Who’s the stringbean standing by the
punch bowl? Somebody ought to feed him.
stringbean