Usually means: Astute awareness of urban environment.
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  1. street-smart: Merriam-Webster
  2. street-smart: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. street-smart: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. street-smart, street-smart: Collins English Dictionary
  5. street-smart: Wordnik
  6. street-smart: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. street-smart: Wiktionary
  8. street-smart: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. street-smart: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. street-smart: Dictionary.com
  11. street-smart: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Having practical rather than theoretical knowledge, like that learned on the streets rather than in the classroom.

Similar:
book smart, hard-nosed, didactic, pragmatic, theoretico-practical, theoretic, jurisprudent, evidence-based, liberal, nonempirical, more...

Opposite:
gullible, naive, trusting, innocent

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Similar:
book smart, hard-nosed, didactic, pragmatic, theoretico-practical, theoretic, jurisprudent, evidence-based, liberal, nonempirical, more...

Opposite:
gullible, naive, trusting, innocent



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