street-smart

[street-smahrt]

adjective

1. possessing or showing street smarts.

Word History and Origins

Origin of street-smart¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

But when Zoë is forced by circumstance to look into the case, she reveals herself to be fearless, dogged and street-smart, as noir an investigator as Oxford is likely to get.

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“For a kid who thought he was this tough street-smart kid from D.C., I was in for a very rude awakening,” he said.

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Brook, like Stokes and McCullum, is street-smart - hardened by playing in Yorkshire's tough men's leagues by the age of 13 - and rough around the edges.

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But the mystery adds to the sense that even though Boden and Fleck are pivoting away from Marvel and back to their indie roots, they’ve made a superhero movie, after all: a street-smart update on the Toxic Avenger.

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Mark is taller and brighter than Darren but infinitely more docile and far less street-smart.

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