Examples of 'street-smart' in a sentence

Meaning of "street-smart"

Street-smart is an adjective used to describe a person who is astute, shrewd, and knowledgeable about how to survive and succeed in difficult or dangerous urban environments, often through practical experience and quick thinking
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  • Having practical rather than theoretical knowledge, like that learned on the streets rather than in the classroom.

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The latest trend in street-smart knitwear.
She grows up street-smart and dreams of giving her family a better life.
People have no choice but to be street-smart.
Jesus was the street-smart hustler of the group.
She also appears to be the most street-smart.
He embarks on an adventure with a street-smart girl to discover how he came to be.
Street-smart today means the ability to survive and prosper in a technical world.
Let us go ask that street-smart youth gang.
The best advertising comes from the ones who are actually street-smart.
This kid is not street-smart or smart in any other way.
The right side is generally associated with street-smart people.
I could be some kind of street-smart con artist out for revenge.
A street-smart lovable everyman with a shady past and a knack for native folklore.
Many martial arts schools also teach street-smart techniques to help avoid problems altogether.
Street-smart kid like Kelly Morris would have no trouble to get her hands on a gun.

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Almost everybody is street-smart and they will cut into the line.
Blind faith in the Markets is anathema to true wealth creation . This street-smart day trading.
She is the street-smart vendor who sells second hand clothes on the market.
To him, New Yorkmeant beautiful women and street-smart guyswho seemed to know all the angles.
A street-smart kid like Kelly Morris would have no trouble getting her hands on a gun.
Bacon, He also has a kind of street-smart ability to play mind games with people.
A street-smart Detroit cop makes his way to California to solve the murder of a childhood friend.
Dominique Fishback as Robin ; a street-smart Power dealer who aspires to be a rap artist.
A street-smart boy who becomes Sarah 's carriage driver when his father can not accept the job.
The driving force behind the Dale was street-smart entrepreneur Liz Carmichael.
Prem is street-smart Must check if he is really dead.
Others are born crafty and street-smart.
Our schools also teaches street-smart techniques to kids to help avoid problems altogether.
Dickie told me you were street-smart.
It is the street-smart Sheriff who comes to their rescue.
I mean, we have got to learn to be a little street-smart.
I could be some kind of street-smart con artist out for revenge . For all he knows.
Street-smart kid like Kelly Morris would have no trouble getting a gun.
Smith basically played himself ; a street-smart West Philly kid transplanted to Beverly Hills.
Although a juvenile delinquent, he is street-smart.
He was a very street-smart city boy.
We all want to seem sophisticated ; we all want to seem street-smart.
She is not street-smart like me.
Simply put, democracy requires citizens to be skeptical and street-smart.
They were street-smart kids.
Street-smart beyond his years, he realizes that he will need a lawyer.
This agent is more street-smart than book-smart.
Ruby 's world is classical and disciplined ; Johnnie 's is improvisational and street-smart.
Only the street-smart can act smart here.
They end up in management positions, are efficient, capable, street-smart and good judges of.
He 's a street-smart fish out of water in a world he never made.
You do not understand . She is not street-smart like me.
I will be like a street-smart type, wearing pants and whatever.
The film introduces Kalaya, a now destitute farmer, and his young, street-smart son Kodukapuli.
Always been more street-smart than book-smart.

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