[ adj ] having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment <adj.all>
I became a professor." His salvation was the TV show, "Route 66." Morrell identified with George Maharis' streetwise character, and he wrote a fan letter to series writer Sterling Silliphant.
The champagne lifestyle has been replaced by gritty realism. 'Our new customers are far more streetwise,' says Mr Bell.
And the sophisticated but streetwise woman he alternately loves and torments was renamed "Zora" in honor of the great writer Zora Neale Hurston.
"Even streetwise cab drivers (were) on their best behavior this week.
The streetwise investor should recoil in horror at any company which starts pontificating about the definition of profit on being asked when it will first make one.
A streetwise veteran of the civil rights movement, Marion Barry has always prided himself on being a survivor.
Blanc ditched the wimpy name, added the "dese" and "dose" of streetwise Brooklyn and rechristened the character Bugs.
They speak with the vocabulary of the streetwise businessman and are no more or less tacky in their display of wealth than their nouveau-riche contemporaries.