street name

English

Noun

street name (plural street names)

1. The slang term for a drug, as traded on the streets.
   • 2001, Andrew Campbell, The Australian Illicit Drug Guide, Black Inc., →ISBN, page 100:

     Ecstasy is the commercially inspired American street name of MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethylamphetamine), a unique psychostimulant drug with both stimulant and hallucinogenic effects.

   • 2008 January 19, Peter Sagal (host), Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, National Public Radio

     Police quickly determined that the street name for holy sand was “cocaine” and said that the man’s arrest has made them think twice about the holy tic tacs and holy parsley they’ve seen lately.

2. A person’s nickname, such as a gangster or mafia name.
   • 2008, Anthony Swofford, Exit A‎^[1], Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     “May I start calling you Severo? Doesn't that sound slick? It could be your street name, your punk name.” She battered her eyelashes.

   • 2013, Maya Angelou, Mom and Me and Mom‎^[2], Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN:

     Boyd asked, “What is your street name?” Mark said, “I'm called Two Fingers Mark.”

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see street,‎ name.

   I know where Eric's house is, but I've forgotten the street name.