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streetwise
[street-wahyz]
streetwise
/ ˈٰːˌɲɪ /
adjective
Also: street-smart.attuned to and adept at surviving in an urban, poor and often criminal environment
Other 51Թ Forms
- street wisdom noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of streetwise1
Example Sentences
No whiff of the streetwise bunch who suckered Croatia and Poland within days of each other last November.
Now he’s back with his own film about a streetwise addict and it turns out he’s a heck of a director, too.
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.
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.
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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