street-smart

[street-smahrt] /ˈstritˌsmɑrt/
adjective
1.
possessing or showing street smarts.
Origin
1965-70
Slang definitions & phrases for street-smart

street-smart

adjective

Cunning and clever in various practical ways, esp in the street culture of the urban ghetto: a place for very sophisticated, street-bright people/ supplanting preppie glamour with what's euphemistically called a ''streetwise'' look. Supertramp is more like it (1976+)