Word info

street-wise

Adjective

Meaning

street-wise (comparative more street-wise, superlative most street-wise)

Alternative spelling of streetwise

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise. Rachel Cohn

Lee Friedlander: "[She] seemed very confident, a street-wise girl. She told me she was putting a band together but half the kids that age are doing that. She was a good professional model." Madonna (entertainer)

There's the street-wise Windy City wiseguy and then—as if to show off that the wiseguy has Wisdom—there are the undigested chunks of arcane, not entirely impressive, philosophic thought and speculation. Source: Internet

In the film, Cooper plays a sheltered, intellectual linguist who is writing an encyclopedia with six other scientists, and hires street-wise Stanwyck to help them with modern slang terms. Source: Internet

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