mean streets

On Southland, McKenzie played Ben Sherman, a patrol officer on the mean streets of Los Angeles.

I asked about whether they were worried about the cat running away after he mentioned “the mean streets of Bakersfield.”

So sayeth Mike Tyson, the menacing and troubled warrior from the mean streets of Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

But for a few nights a week, I become Xe BlackH20, a car thief and hit man trying to make it on the mean streets of Los Santos.

It's not like I came up on the mean streets of Camden, or come from a long line of dockworkers.

There are many poor widows in the mean streets of our own cities looking down the road for the Elisha of to-day who cometh not.

Here is a curious case from the London Sessions that is bound to cause a lot of talk in the mean streets.

Next to dry rot and vermin, a tenant with “a tongue” is the greatest enemy of the landlord of mean streets.

So I shall always think of Furnes as a wet, dark place, and of myself with a lantern trudging about its mean streets.

The mean streets merely look mean from the outside, but inside the walls are to be found squalor, misery, and tragedy.