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street smart

ADJECTIVE
  1. having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment

How To Use street smart In A Sentence

  • This officer, in a report in the early 1990s, said the supergrass was an extremely street smart criminal who ‘will do anything if he sees a financial gain.’
  • The key to that is somebody with at least a strong, identifiable personality, coupled with street smarts and a clearly articulated vision.
  • Rudy Wittshirk, an outdoorsman and occasional commentary writer in these pages, once told me that growing up in New York made him a better outdoorsman -- street smarts translates to trail smarts, because the common theme is awareness. Anchorage Daily News - Alaska News
  • The boys learned their street smarts early.
  • He is street smart and is not afraid of this neighborhood.
  • The boys learned their street smarts early.
  • It encompasses books smarts and street smarts, financial genius and emotional intelligence.
  • More often than not, he possessed an acquiescent nature, which made it easy to work alongside him in combination with his quick thinking and street smarts.
  • He's a pawn in his game, a partner turned prey who has just one day to pick up the street smarts that will get him through.
  • He is street smart and is not afraid of this neighborhood.
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