- a familiar or slang name of a narcotic drug: A street name for phencyclidine is “angel dust.”
- an arrangement in which a broker holds securities in their own name instead of in the name of the customer, especially for convenience in executing transfers and in pledging for borrowing in margin accounts: Stocks held in street name are insured up to $500,000 by the federal government against fraud or financial failure of the brokerage company.
