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street smarts

Informal cunning or shrewdness needed to live in, or to deal with people living in, an urban environment characterized by poverty, crime, etc.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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