WordNet
n. a street with only one way in or out [syn: blind alley, cul de sac, impasse]
Usage examples of "dead-end street".
Then it showed again and he'd use it for a while until there'd be a dead-end street or alley and he'd have to go back and start all over.
He lives in a street called Brass End, which is a very minor dead-end street, and he said it wasn't in the Streetfinder.
It may have been so once, but the mojos are rapidly heading down a dead-end street.
He pulled into a secluded, dead-end street and locked the convertible.
The house itself had seen better days, though, as had most of the other homes on that dead-end street, and Nan suspected that it was rented.
It is a dead-end street and there are no pedestrians who pass by chance.
He was heading into a dead-end street, but there was an alley leading from it.
Dolphin Court turned out to be a short, dead-end street in a neighbourhood of small, single-family homes.