Word info

walk the streets

Verb

Meaning

To walk about in a city or town, especially as an activity in itself.

To be free to move about in a city or town.

(dated) To be unemployed; to be looking for work.

To prostitute.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds. Eric Hoffer

O Christians! are you willing to walk the streets of heaven, and have no one greet you there? Would you be willing to go yourselves inside the gates and never have a soul to greet you and say, " I thank God for the kind words of sympathy and love you spoke on earth?" Joseph Cummings

I was twenty then. What the hell, I used to say, take your time, Bandini. You got ten years to write a book, so take it easy, get out and learn about life, walk the streets. That's your trouble: your ignorance of life. John Fante

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