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street smarts
plural noun
, Informal.
- shrewd awareness of how to survive or succeed in any situation, especially as a result of living or working in a difficult environment, as a city ghetto neighborhood.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of street smarts1
First recorded in 1970–75
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Example Sentences
The one thing they all seemed to have in common was an utter lack of street smarts.
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I had been a shy, conservative girl with more book smarts than street smarts.
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He was just applying his street smarts to his job, and decided that something about Kahtani sounded an internal alarm.
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Portrayed as having a good degree of street smarts, cunning Carver seems to have played along in the interest of getting ahead.
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The real Harvey Milk was a veritable Lenny Bruce of comic timing and New York City street smarts.
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