Definition of Street person

1. Noun. Someone who sleeps in any convenient place.

Exact synonyms: Dosser
Generic synonyms: Bum, Hobo, Tramp
Derivative terms: Doss

Lexicographical Neighbors of Street Person

street elbow
street fighter
street fighters
street food
street foods
street furniture
street girl
street hockey
street lamp
street light
street lights
street market
street name
street organ
street party
street person (current term)
street pigeon
street racing
street railway
street shoes
street sign
street smart
street smarts
street sweeper
street team
street teams
street theater
street urchin
streetball
streetballer

Literary usage of Street person

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Negligence Cases: A Complete Collection of All Reported Negligence (1902)
"... 697 STREET. person crossing street in evening struck by horse and wagon alleged to be going at slow trot; negligence of parties for jury Mass. ..."

2. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases Affecting by Frank Cyrus Smith, Thomas Johnson Michie, United States Courts, Great Britain Courts, Canada Courts (1906)
"Building Material in Street—Person Thrown from Vehicle on Preceding Night.— In an action for personal injuries resulting from :i' ..."

3. The Art of Writing English: A Book for College Classes by Rollo Walter Brown, Nathaniel Waring Barnes (1913)
"With a savage jerk on the lines, he shouted at his horse and drove off down the street. person want to stay in the house. While I stood at my window I saw ..."

4. What Holds Us Together: Social Cohesion in South Africa by David Chidester, Phillip Dexter (2004)
"It is street people going around collecting from street people For a street person just to give money to a collector and to have no guarantee that that ..."

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