main drag
noun
US, informal
: the main street in a town or city
A carload of teenagers were cruising down the main drag.
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Montecito’s main drag, Coast Village Road, has great people-watching—especially at its buzzy restaurants.
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Sheila Yasmin Marikar, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2024
Its main drag is crammed with housing complexes, strip malls, gas stations and two used car dealerships.
—Jake Whitney, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
And farmers, up and down this same main drag in town in 1980.
—Grant Blankenship, NPR, 30 Dec. 2024
Joe and her team pulled to a stop in the middle of a main drag, then hunkered down inside the Suburban and behind its doors to pick off adversaries.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 27 Oct. 2024
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Sheila Yasmin Marikar, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2024
Its main drag is crammed with housing complexes, strip malls, gas stations and two used car dealerships.
—Jake Whitney, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
And farmers, up and down this same main drag in town in 1980.
—Grant Blankenship, NPR, 30 Dec. 2024
Joe and her team pulled to a stop in the middle of a main drag, then hunkered down inside the Suburban and behind its doors to pick off adversaries.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 27 Oct. 2024
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“Main drag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/main%20drag. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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