streetlight

noun

street·light ˈstrēt-ˌlīt

: a light usually mounted on a pole and constituting one of a series spaced at intervals along a public street or highway

called also streetlamp

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Do the streetlights in Aspen flicker every time the billionaires fire up their oxygen engines? —

Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 16 Oct. 2024 One of the best little builds is a streetlight with Peter Parker’s camera attached. —

Clint Davis, Peoplemag, 3 Sep. 2024 The first event, a Oct. 27 Timothee Chalamet lookalike contest, began as a paper advertisement taped on a lone streetlight in New York. —

Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024 Scientists first started observing how streetlights disturbed commuting bats 15 years ago and found out that some species seemed hard-wired to avoid the lights. —

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