main\ drag

main\ drag
noun colloquial
1. the most important street or thoroughfare in a town.

Lincoln Avenue is the main drag of our town.

2. the street where the dope pushers and the prostitutes are.

Wells Street is the main drag of Chicago, actionwise.


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