STREETWISE

US also street-smart [adjective] - able to manage or succeed in dangerous or difficult situations in big towns or cities where poor people live or where there is a lot of crimeSoon after arriving from Russia, he learned the streetwise ways of the multi-ethnic culture that was developing in New York.McDonald was as streetwise as any of the criminals he had investigated.She recently adopted a streetwise Washington youngster from a crime-ridden neighborhood whose father was in jail.Training shoes are an important streetwise status symbol for many teenagers.