Sentence examples for street term from inspiring English sources

The market for sovereign debt — the Wall Street term for loans to governments — is as unfettered as it is vast.

Double dip is the Wall Street term for a second recession on the heels of one that just ended.

I am going to use a street term, not that I am a bougie woman by any stretch of the imagination, but I like quality things.

"You get the pope on smack," Mr. Hofmeister said, using a street term for the drug, "and he would be stealing from the Vatican to get that high".

"The real value here is in spread products," he added, using the Wall Street term for bonds like corporates that trade at a higher yield than Treasuries.

The action of "Zoot Suit" revolves around the travails of Henry Reyna and other members of the 38th Street Gang of pachucos (a street term for adolescent Mexican-Americans).

In Wall Street terms, that's an eternity.

Its problems, in Downing Street terms, are labelled "solved".

Wags on Wall Street termed the combination: white shoes and white socks.

The flow of information is unequal - asymmetric, in Wall Street terms -- between the often wealthy buyers and the low-income residents who suffer foreclosures.

THERE is something a little incongruous about hearing Oliver Stone, the left-leaning, blunt-talking film director, dropping arcane Wall Street terms like "credit default swaps" and "collateralized debt obligations".