Noun. Portmanteau of "street" and "road": it describes a street, er, road, built for high speed, but with multiple access points. Excessive width is a common feature. A common feature in suburbia, especially along commercial strips. Unsafe at any speed, their extreme width and straightness paradoxically induces speeding. Somewhat more neutral than synonymous traffic sewer.
Did you see what the traffic engineers want to do to our street? They're going to turn it into a total stroad!
by hammersklavier January 27, 2012
Stroad is a mix of street and road. It's too wide and fast to be safe for pedestrians while having too many intersections and driveways for an efficient movement of cars
You can also use this word in a derogatory way
You can also use this word in a derogatory way
by notaferenc123 August 31, 2022
The word Stroad orginates from the last name of Stroud, it is a word that is mixed with choad and stroad. also stroudem is the word stroud and scrodem mixed
by billy November 16, 2004
Stroad is an unofficial slang portmanteau of street + road. It refers to roads that do a dangerous job of combining the features of a street and a road.
It is often a high-capacity suburban arterial road typically going through a commercial strip development. They are usually lined with direct access points to retail businesses with expansive front parking, making the area car-centric and having low walkability. They can often be multilane and go at speeds slightly faster than regular city speed limits.
Stroads often get memed as a satire of North American suburban life, full of lifeless bland consumerism, and a sort of artificial / detached sense of reality.
It is often a high-capacity suburban arterial road typically going through a commercial strip development. They are usually lined with direct access points to retail businesses with expansive front parking, making the area car-centric and having low walkability. They can often be multilane and go at speeds slightly faster than regular city speed limits.
Stroads often get memed as a satire of North American suburban life, full of lifeless bland consumerism, and a sort of artificial / detached sense of reality.
Friend 1: Do you feel a little sick driving through these kinds of places, mentally?
Friend 2: Yeah because it's literally a STROAD bro.
Friend 2: Yeah because it's literally a STROAD bro.
by Damianlewiam July 22, 2023