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Definition of Street smarts
1. Noun. A shrewd ability to survive in a dangerous urban environment.
Definition of Street smarts
1. Noun. Practical knowledge, especially concerning human behavior. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Street Smarts
Literary usage of Street smarts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Using Civil Remedies for Criminal Behavior: Rationale, Case Studies by Peter Finn (1994)
"... CDU screens job applicants for "street smarts," and he looks for candidates
with good people-to-people and verbal skills. Candidates must also be able ..."
2. Rural Substance Abuse: State of Knowledge & Issues edited by Elizabeth B. Robertson (1999)
"Children who fail in other areas often can find acceptance and self-esteem through
their street smarts and gang membership. Gang membership not only relates ..."
3. Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Concepts and Cases by Julian Inglis (1993)
"Urban families accumulate "street smarts" which change to meet the times.
Detailed knowledge of the urban environment is essential for survival. ..."
4. Patronage Or Partnership: Local Capacity Building in Humanitarian Crises by Ian Smillie (2001)
"The lack of NGO street smarts—basic management expertise and donor savvy—is a
further problem. In particular, local NGOs have difficulties in communication ..."
5. End The Biggest Educational And Intellectual Blunder In History: A $100,000 by Norman W. Edmund (2005)
"... involving imagining, discovering, and inventing • practical intelligence,
or “street smarts,” used for putting ideas into action Howard Gardner—Multiple ..."
6. Memoirs of a Winner by Gary Ward Scott (2007)
"street smarts, spin, propaganda, lies, industrial espionage and collusion, street
fights, and terror—all geared to changing attitudes—could be replacing ..."
7. Art Works! Prevention Programs for Youth and Communities by Paula Randall (1998)
"... staff were not prepared for the combination of street smarts, toughness, anger,
frustration, innocence and lack of primary educational skills exhibited ..."
8. Transsexuals: Life from Both Sides by Lynn Hubschman (1999)
"My street smarts were excellent, though. I grew up in an old, tough place.
We lived on the same block my mother grew up on; my father had grown up not far ..."
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