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Streetwise
Streetwise
has a number of different meanings:
wisdom
in a particular subject;
knowledge
of
youth culture
, also called
Street
;
practical knowledge
, as opposed to ivory tower or bookish knowledge, knowledge on how to succeed through life, or generally how to avoid the pitfalls;
it can be used in a
euphemistic
sense to refer to
stupidity
.
Last updated: 05-13-2005 07:56:04