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  • noun Plural form of streetcorner.

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Examples

  • The first President and father of his country put himself through college by singing for his supper at streetcorners and pubs.

    First Jobs of History's Greatest 2010

  • She ends up looking like one of the crossdressers I sometimes see standing on streetcorners late at night around Jakarta.

    Venus Williams… 2010

  • The first President and father of his country put himself through college by singing for his supper at streetcorners and pubs.

    Mark C. Miller: First Jobs of History's Greatest 2010

  • Meanwhile, Chill continues to loiter unresponsiblely on streetcorners and swear when it stumbles home drunk at 2: 30 in the morning that it's been looking for work.

    protect me from what i want matociquala 2008

  • Death on local streetcorners and in apartment buildings down the block.

    Modern Mondays: Gus Van Sant’s “Death Trilogy” 2002-2005 2009

  • He hustled nickels on streetcorners by selling the afternoon newspaper that I later wrote for.

    American Sketches Walter Isaacson 2009

  • They weren't celebrities, except in their own ghettos or barrios or streetcorners.

    RJ Eskow: Dylan's New Album: It's a Passport Photo 2009

  • This book was plenty dark with murder most foul and kelpies on the streetcorners, but even though many of the fae were not particularly good, many of them did not seem particularly amoral which is how I tend to think of the fae.

    Reviews of fantasy and science fiction books Kristen 2009

  • Glenn Beck — who has a daily TV show on a popular cable news network and therefore must be taken more seriously in some quarters than scruffy people ranting on streetcorners — assembles his friends to war-game the coming civil war.

    The Coming Civil War Sean 2009

  • The sites, once the virtual streetcorners, pubs and clubs for millions of 15- to 24-year-olds, have now been over-run by 25- to 34-year-olds whose presence is driving their younger peers away.

    Archive 2009-08-02 Bill Crider 2009

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