A fork of Rural Dictionary
A trait that helps one cope with the everyday person or situation in the Ghetto and ALSO in personal life and business. A people person. One good with words. Smooth-talker.
My uncle, the business owner, is rarely taken advantage of because he is 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.
A phrase to describe a phony person. Though there are different kinds of intelligence, intelligence is intelligence, and street smart is just another phrase people use to divide people, just like book smart, to turn somebody into a 2 dimensional person. Language is meant to hide the truth about people and their intentions, no matter the language.
Nobody but phony people claim to be street smart. Experience will show you that.
Don't you really hate it when somebody starts describing themself or somebody else as street smart when you know that they know deep down that they could describe themself as more than just plain street smart without people thinking they were egotistical and pompous?
Ask yourself whether even Tupac wouldn't be able to call himself street smart enough, and if even he wouldn't do it, and you are from the part of Kansas way past Kansas City, (Missouri or Kansas) or somewhere just like parts of Kansas way past Kansas City, why would you get on a National Geographic show about prison with a pseudonym and claim to be street smart when you know it isn't you, it's just an image you want (but you still think it's as hilarious to everyone else as it is to you what you're saying and doing)?
Intelligence gained outside of school. Just as useful as book smarts, and in many cases more so. It can be divided into 4 categories.
1.Getting Along With Others- Knowing which questions to ask and not asking too many,being polite and friendly, but also being assertive.
2.Common Sense- Knowing who you can trust, which areas in town are good and which are bad, etc.
3.Self-defense-Knowing how to fight and fend off an attacker, especially if you are small.
4.BS-detection-Knowing when people are trying to fuck you over, reading their intentions, and knowing that most corporate advertisements are complete bullshit.
Dave Thomas founded Wendy's without school because he had street smarts.
Someone who knows when to avoid potentially negative situations, that even with a favourable outcome, will not result in any value to them. Also able to read between the lines.
Tony did not have street smarts because he went down the dark alleyway instead of the one that had sunshine and flowers.
Street smarts is the ability to survive in dangerous situations, fighting skills, and able to blend in with many different types of people.
I went to Compton and I survived the night therefore I have street smarts.