Definition of "main drag" [main drag]

• Slang The principal street of a city or town. (noun)

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• "Then the ‘31 dust storms closed down U.S. 1 for six months straight, the armadillos and Gilas went crazy, ate themselves diseased on jimson weed, crawled off to die or stormed Lizard Ridge’s main drag and got squashed by cars."
• "Concentrated on a wedge a half mile long and four blocks deep, either side of the main drag in from the west."
• "The main drag was Orange Avenue and a good part'of it was given over to a sprawling gravel yard filled with somnolent threshers, tillers, bulldozers, and tractors."