side street

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   a street intersecting a main street and terminating there

   Broaderstreet

Questions about side street

What does side street mean?

side street means "a street intersecting a main street and terminating there".

Is side street a common word?

side street is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.