I really think that they get Las Vegas street names by randomly picking words out of a dictionary without checking to read the definition. Why else is there really a “Bombastic Court” on the west side?
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Would you want to live at an address that proclaimed you to be “marked by or given to bombast: pompous, overblown?”
If you get bored, Vegas geography Mad Libs are fun–just mix and match the made-up street names by picking two (or even three) words from a pool like this one:
sky violet mountain desert timber oak river ivory willow walnut lake valley dusk rose spring royal sierra creek vista oak painted
and then concluding with one from here:
court way lane drive
Try it–it’s fun. And you couldn’t do worse than some of the names we’ve already got.
Indeed! Hegel must live there! Along with Schiller, Fichte, Schelling, and all the other windbag philosophasters.