Pl. streetfuls (less correctly streets-full). [f. STREET sb. + -FUL.] As much or as many as a street will hold.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. i. ii. The dull street-lamps disclose only streetfuls of haggard countenances.
1846. Dickens, Pict. Italy, Rome, 177. The carriages … showing, the whole street-full, through the storm of flowers.
1901. A. Birrell, in N. Amer. Rev., Feb., 252. Majuba Hill made Tories in streetfuls.
1914. J. C. Cox, in Antiquary (1915), XI. 17/2. The University and Library [of Louvain were] obliterated, and streets-full of houses destroyed by wanton and deliberate incendiaries.
