walk the streets
idiomatic phrase
1
: to walk in a city
People don't feel safe walking the streets at night.
My wife was away and it was the middle of winter, and I remember getting home and I'd lost my keys. I had to walk the streets with my daughter screaming in the cold.—
Josh Widdecombe, quoted in The Independent (London)
Josh Widdecombe, quoted in The Independent (London)2
: to find customers as a sex worker by walking around in the streets
… the girl said she was being held against her will in a hotel room and forced "to walk the streets and perform sex acts for money," investigators said in court records.—Nate Gartrell
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“Walk the streets.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/walk%20the%20streets. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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