street date

noun

plural street dates

: the date set by a manufacturer or publisher as the first day a product may be sold to consumers

Cannon didn't think that his trading card dealer had intentionally broken the street date, or that anyone involved had dealt with stolen product.

—Sisi Jiang

Examples of street date in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

With one top 10 smash already featured on its tracklist, and plenty of time to release more singles before the full-length’s street date arrives, Rosé may be headed for more Billboard firsts in the coming months. —Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024

Trending on Billboard The song would make its way into the public sphere when Broken Bow released the track and its accompanying video to digital service providers on July 4, ahead of the Aug. 23 street date for her album Whirlwind. —Tom Roland, Billboard, 16 Oct. 2024

Eventually, TikTok users flooded his comment section begging him to drop the full song, resulting in the track’s Feb. 9 street date. —Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 20 Mar. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1979, in the meaning defined above