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Sesame Street
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Proper noun
Sesame Street
A television show for children on PBS.
en 1996 Laurie Gunst Born Fi' Dead: A Journey Through the Jamaican Posse Underworld 171 She parked the car on Rogers Avenue, which she called "Sesame Street," "for the unpredictable theatrics of its inhabitants."
en 2002 Joan Elizabeth Lloyd If it Feels Good: Using the Five Senses to Enhance Your Lovemaking 39 A friend of mine described it as "Sesame Street" for adults and that's not a bad characterization.
en 2003 William C. Doster; Elizabeth Schmid; Adrian W. Poitras; Ruth Ward How to Prepare for the CLEP 96 The Sesame Street Generation, as some teachers are calling the group of children now in high school, know their numbers and the letters of the alphabet.
en 2003 Vonette Z. Bright; Nancy Moser The Sister Circle 124 "You can't do that if your time is consumed with patty-cake and Sesame Street." Summer turned toward Tessa. "I'm too old for Sesame Street. I know my ABCs."
a. 2005, Alex Irvine, "Pictures from an Expedition", in Gordon Van Gelder, ed., Fourth Planet from the Sun: Tales of Mars from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (2005), page 253:
It means that even when we go to Mars, we have to look like the cast of Sesame Street.
en 2005 Kevin O'Brien The Last Victim 86 Bridget slipped into the room, which had been decorated with a Sesame Street motif.
en October 24 2007 Benedict Carey New studies suggest sleep is vital to learning and memory International Herald Tribune France The task looks as simple as a "sesame street" exercise. Study pairs of Easter eggs on a computer screen and memorize how the computer has arranged them [].
2007 November 9, gay.com > music: emerging artists > watch now: cazwell's "watch my ...Gay.com UK:
"i wanted 'sesame street' on acid and that's pretty much what i got."
2007 November 13, SUN Weekend (Antigua and Barbuda):
[I]n Sesame Street style one kept saying “pea” while the other countered “nut” both words just began to blend until they came up with “peanut”.
2007 November 18 (Sunday), Joann Klimkiewicz, "Fugheddaboud what you think you know about Brooklyn", The Hartford Courant:
Find the park's western edge and spill out into aptly named Park Slope -- a crown jewel of Brooklyn neighborhoods. Its tree-lined streets, romantic brownstones and cozy cafes emanate a family-friendly, Sesame Street vibe.
Translations
television show
Armenian: hy Սեզամ փողոցում
Azerbaijani: az Susam Caddesi
Catalan: ca Barri Sèsam
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 芝麻街 Zhīmajiē
Dutch: nl Sesamstraat
Finnish: fi Sesame Street
Georgian: ka სეზამის ქუჩა
German: de Sesamstraße
Kazakh: kk Сезам көшесі
Kyrgyz: ky Сезам көчөсү
Portuguese: pt Rua Sésamo Portugal; pt Vila Sésamo Brazil
Spanish: es Plaza Sésamo Mexico; es Barrio Sésamo Spain
Tajik: tg Сиамам
Turkish: tr Susam Sokağı
Uzbek: uz Sesam koʻchasi Sesam ko'chasi
Volapük: vo Sesamasüt
See also
en Oscar the Grouch
en Cookie Monster