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main street

NOUN:
  1. The principal street of a small town.
  2. Main Street
    1. The inhabitants of small towns considered as a group.
    2. A place that represents narrowness of view and smug complacency.
ETYMOLOGY:
Sense 2, after Main Street, a novel by Sinclair Lewis


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