Usually means: Average person; typical societal member.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word man in the street:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. man in the street, the man in the street: Merriam-Webster
  2. the man in the street: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. man in the street: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. man in the street: Collins English Dictionary
  5. man in the street: Vocabulary.com
  6. man in the street: Wordnik
  7. man in the street: Wiktionary
  8. man in the street: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. man in the street: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. man in the street, the man in the street: Dictionary.com
  11. Man in the Street: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Man in the street: Rhymezone
  13. man in the street: FreeDictionary.org
  14. man in the street: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. man in the street: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. man in the street: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. man in the street: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. man in the street: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. man in the street, the man in the street: Idioms

(Note: See man_in_the_streets as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (man in the street)

noun:  (idiomatic) A typical person, unversed in a given subject; an inexpert commoner.

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