street smart 

A phrase used by dumb and/or ignorant people that want to use the word 'smart' to describe themselves. These particular people tend to look down on intelligent people who actually put time and effort into learning to make their lives better. Basically used as an excuse for dumb people who don't value education and pursuing new ideas and don't understand that learning math and language skills give you a big leg up in the world.

"If you spend your life reading books, you aint gonna last in the real world. You gotta be street smart to survive."

"I don't have to learn nothing to survive. I'm street smart."

"I'm not book smart, I'm street smart."

street smart by IamDBCooper June 4, 2014

street smart 

A street smart person usually grew up in a shrewd environment. He/She knows the workings of the mind inside people who are less educated, and knows how to make the correct choices while in their presence.

Eminem, Makai Phipher, Me, Jennifer Lopez and Dave Chappelle are all of examples of people who are street smart.

street smart by Haveaheart81 November 23, 2006

street smart 

the intelligence of approaching things stealthy to get one's way

not book smart

people smart

He's an underground winner, he seems to use his street smarts to succeed in life.

street smart by Beantowner December 18, 2004

Street smart 

Absolute nonsense idiots use to feel better about themselves, or to brag when in reality they have literally nothing going on.
Used in place of actual logic or as the idiots using this teen call it "book smarts".

Idiot: hey that guy got an A on the test.
Person: yeah i heard that guy is actually really smart
Idiot: well book smarts don't mean anything in the real world, i have Street smarts... By the way this lemon is really sour, that's surprising.

Street smart by word adveruter April 6, 2017

Street Smart 

A term that complete idiots use to try and glorify their ignorance as being some kind of virtue. Someone who is "street smart" might be found wearing Tap-Out clothing, has a shaved head, some kind of dragon tattoo or obscure Asian lettering somewhere on their body, brags about how many bones in your body they can break, has an ego completely disproportionate to their abilities, and watches UFC ritualistically. This type of person can often be found making minimum wage on a local McDonald's construction site, or at a pre-screening of "Never Back Down".

Frank: Yo man I jus can wait to kick yo ass. I'm a fighter and I street smart.
John: Really? Because you seem to be talking a lot and not doing shit.

Street Smart by Spritel March 16, 2010

street smart 

Knows how to live on the streets. Can function on streets.

He might not be acadimiclly smart, but he sure is street smart.

street smart by Sam March 25, 2005

Street Smart Psychic 

Hip, cool psychic reader who taps into your energy to give you a heads up on what is in the stars and who is hanging in the bars. The daily dose of psychic prozac for the psychic junkie who is jonesing for a reading.

The Street Smart Psychic gave the psychic junkie a tarot card reading to give her a heads up on what to expect next and a psychic prescription to go with the psychic prediction...take two fortune cookies and call me in the morning.

Street Smart Psychic by The Street Smart Psychic November 8, 2009