An area of a city where the poor or socially deprived live or work, or an area that is noted for violence and crime.
贫民街区；治安混乱的城区
the mean streets of the South Bronx
南布朗克斯的贫民街区。
Example sentencesExamples
Because of his football prowess, David leaves the mean streets of the city behind to attend St. Matthews, an elite prep school in an ideal New England pastoral setting.
The mean streets of Detroit form the backdrop and almost envelope the viewer in the crime and grime which surround them; making you feel dirty as a result.
As a boy Jimenez was attracted to Chicago's mean streets.
A strong neighborhood feeling grew out of the patchwork of communities thrown together on these mean streets.
His New York is instantly recognisable, from the famous skyline to the dirty, mean streets.
It starts in the 1970s as three friends, Tre, Doughboy, and Ricky, learn hard lessons on the mean streets of their hometown.
Suddenly all those familiar mean streets seem different.
Lady grew up on the mean streets of Fort Worth, Texas.
They laugh and snort cocaine together, but his main refuge from the mean streets is cabaret glamour.
Raised on the mean streets of New York, Nellie McKay is a jazz sensation who also raps.
Definition of mean streets in US English:
mean streets
plural nounmiːnˈstriːts
An area of a city where the poor or socially deprived live or work, or an area that is noted for violence and crime.
贫民街区；治安混乱的城区
the mean streets of the South Bronx
南布朗克斯的贫民街区。
Example sentencesExamples
Suddenly all those familiar mean streets seem different.
Raised on the mean streets of New York, Nellie McKay is a jazz sensation who also raps.
A strong neighborhood feeling grew out of the patchwork of communities thrown together on these mean streets.
As a boy Jimenez was attracted to Chicago's mean streets.
His New York is instantly recognisable, from the famous skyline to the dirty, mean streets.
It starts in the 1970s as three friends, Tre, Doughboy, and Ricky, learn hard lessons on the mean streets of their hometown.
Lady grew up on the mean streets of Fort Worth, Texas.
They laugh and snort cocaine together, but his main refuge from the mean streets is cabaret glamour.
Because of his football prowess, David leaves the mean streets of the city behind to attend St. Matthews, an elite prep school in an ideal New England pastoral setting.
The mean streets of Detroit form the backdrop and almost envelope the viewer in the crime and grime which surround them; making you feel dirty as a result.