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street smart

street smart is the alternative spelling of street-smart.

Meaning of street-smart

Adjective

street-smart (comparative street-smarter, superlative street-smartest)

  1. Having practical rather than theoretical knowledge, like that learned on the streets rather than in the classroom.
    • im street smarter than him yo

Forms of street smart

comparativemore street smart
superlativemost street smart

Questions about street smart

What is street smart the alternative spelling of?
Street smart is the alternative spelling of street-smart.

Words near street smart in the dictionary

  1. street shitter
  2. street shitters
  3. street shoes
  4. street sign
  5. street signs
  6. street smart
  7. street smarts
  8. street stock
  9. street sweeper
  10. street sweepers
  11. street taco

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Adapted from Wiktionary: street smart (page history and authors); street-smart (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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