Baker Street

English

Etymology

Named after William Baker, a builder.

Proper noun

Baker Street

A street in the Westminster borough of London; the fictional home of Sherlock Holmes was at number 221B.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
  She was looking more like Sherlock Holmes than ever. Slap a dressing-gown on her and give her a violin, and she could have walked straight into Baker Street and no questions asked.

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