From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishstreet peopleˈstreet ˌpeople noun [plural] SSHOME#people who have no home and live on the streets SYN the homeless
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street people• Sidewalks were more crowded, there were more street people, traffic felt more chaotic than when I had left.• In one street people were hand-making bicycles out of tubing, welding the bits together and then painting them.• It also functions as the mission control centre for the city's street people.• Since the building had been empty when the charge went, the street people had taken the casualties.• The street people who pose in his paintings live for ever, and he intended it that way. 