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street-smart

[ street-smahrt ]

adjective

  1. possessing or showing street smarts.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of street-smart1

First recorded in 1965–70
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“For a kid who thought he was this tough street-smart kid from D.C., I was in for a very rude awakening,” he said.

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Brook, like Stokes and McCullum, is street-smart - hardened by playing in Yorkshire's tough men's leagues by the age of 13 - and rough around the edges.

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But the mystery adds to the sense that even though Boden and Fleck are pivoting away from Marvel and back to their indie roots, they’ve made a superhero movie, after all: a street-smart update on the Toxic Avenger.

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Mark is taller and brighter than Darren but infinitely more docile and far less street-smart.

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And it’s a brief respite from work — she plays street-smart second-grade teacher Melissa Schemmenti on ABC’s “Abbott Elementary” and is currently on tour performing her comedy show.

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