Definition of "street name" []

• The name of a street. (noun)
• The name of a broker or brokerage firm as used when registering a security owned by a customer in order to simplify trading. (noun)
• An alternative or slang term for something, especially an illegal drug: "Acid” is a street name for LSD. (noun)
• An alternative name that a person chooses or is given, especially as used in inner city neighborhoods: "[She] wears a gold necklace with the letters F-R-E-S-H—her street name—spelled out in rhinestones” ( Ted Gup). (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The address on the license had a five-digit house number and a Los Angeles street name and a zip that meant nothing to Reacher."