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streetwise

Or street-wise

[street-wahyz]

adjective

  1. street-smart.



streetwise

/ ˈٰːˌɲɪ /

adjective

  1. Also: street-smart.attuned to and adept at surviving in an urban, poor and often criminal environment

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • street wisdom noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of streetwise1

An Americanism dating back to 1960–65; street + wise 1
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No whiff of the streetwise bunch who suckered Croatia and Poland within days of each other last November.

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Now he’s back with his own film about a streetwise addict and it turns out he’s a heck of a director, too.

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She was streetwise and brassy and physically striking, a small-time hustler and “dice girl” who lingered in casinos to induce men to drink and gamble.

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You cannot press and play with high energy for the full 90 minutes and Arsenal were streetwise enough not to exhaust themselves in the first half and to leave something in the tank.

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Paxton is a sweet and eager missionary born into the faith; Barnes joined by way of her mother’s conversion and seems a bit more streetwise.

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