street people
noun
1.
persons whose home is in the streets of a city; the homeless.
2.
people who make their living in the streets, especially of large cities, as vendors or performers.
3.
the people of a neighborhood, especially a crowded big-city neighborhood or ghetto, who frequent the streets of their area.
Origin
1965-70
Examples from the web for
street people
And you can arrange your miniature
street people
in your miniature town square without feeling sorry for them.
It's odd that in such a quiet society that you find such talkative
street people
.
Yuen noted that some of the
street people
are mentally ill who chose to live in the streets.
street people
try to sell utterly unnecessary things.
Slang definitions & phrases for
street people
street people
noun phrase
Ghetto dwellers
Homeless people such as transient hippies, bag ladies, and the like; drifters
(1967+)