street smart

1. 1.

   having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment

   Synonymsstreetwisewith-it

   Similarsmart

Questions about street smart

What does street smart mean?

street smart means "having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment".

What is another word for street smart?

Close synonyms include streetwise, with-it. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is street smart a common word?

street smart is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.