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streetcorner

a. (context of a person English) Who does something on the streetcorner; as, a streetcorner preacher. n. The corner of a street; usually where two streets cross each other.

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Streetcorner

A streetcorner or street corner is the location which lies adjacent to an intersection of two roads. Such locations are important in terms of local planning and commerce, usually being the locations of street signs and lamp posts, as well as being a prime spot to locate a business due to visibility and accessibility from traffic going along either of the adjacent streets. One source suggests that this is so for a facility combining two purposes, like an automotive showroom that provides repair services as well: "For all these types of buildings, property on a street corner is most desirable as separate entrances are most easily provided for."

Due to this visibility, street-corners are the choice location for activities ranging from panhandling to prostitution to protests to petition signature drives, hence the term "street-corner politics". This makes street-corners a good location to observe human activity, for purposes of learning what environmental structures best fit that activity. Sidewalks at street corners tend to be rounded, rather than coming to a point, for ease of traffic making turns at the intersection.

Usage examples of "streetcorner".

Sometimes he could be found on the streetcorners, handing out copies of his latest tract to all who would accept them an eccentric, vaguely risible figure, hungry for something or other, one of the familiar cranks of Rat Town.

He headed toward her, but paused on the way for a tequila at an improvised cantina someone had set up on the streetcorner, using a big wooden box as the bar.

That had caused a lot of anger, and possible reasons, all of them highly discreditable to one or all factions of the ruling powers, formed a staple of the new industry of streetcorner and public-square oratory.

It was all very well to rant in taverns and on streetcorners, where his verbal pyrotechnics were viewed as so much free entertainment.

I saw very few well-constructed houk-oumi (government) mosques, but many streetcorner ahli (people’s) mosques, which served as local bases for radical clerics and extremist groups.

Many Ambonese strolled about the roadway, sat in cafs, relaxed at streetcorners, in windows, or on pavements.

They stuck together despite their differences, drawn together by the same mysterious attractive force that causes streetcorner crackpots to set up their soapboxes right next to each other.

I've never been in Baton Rouge and never so much as touched a streetcorner girl, and we both knew it.

It was well into July, and the summer sun and blue skies had brought out the colors on the London streets: the shirts and dresses of the tourists and late-morning shoppers, the seasonal offerings in the windows of the fashion houses, and riotous displays of orchids, roses, and lilies on the carts of streetcorner flower vendors.

The longshoremen were hanging around the streetcorners, betting who could spit farthest.

Back in England, where Puritans are a memory of a bygone age, or at worst streetcorner nuisances, the term serves well enough to lampoon the backwoodsmen of Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Find a neighborhood with succubi on the streetcorners and you'll generally find it's not the kind of place where you'd want to bring up your kids if you had a choice.

Every couple of blocks a mercury vapor lamp illuminated a streetcorner.