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Tweet n. 1. The principal street of a small town. 2. Main Street a. Average businesses and households considered as a group. b. The inhabitants of small US towns considered as having a narrow-minded or materialistic worldview. [Sense 2b, after Main Street, a novel by Sinclair Lewis.] |
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