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street
adjective- experienced in or possessing the necessary qualities for urban survival US
- “I’m street, just like you are, the judge said to the defendant, “and your attorney either doesn’t have her shit together or your best interest at heart.” — Elmore Leonard, City Primeval, p. 8, 1980
- Vanilla Ice’s mistake–he should have never said he was street [...] But when you come out and you say street, street is a rite of passage. Every black person isn’t street. When you say you’re street that means you have had to live on the street. — Alex Ogg, The Hip Hop Years [quoting Ice-T], p. 131, 1999
- having an admired-as-fashionable quality of being understood by or of urban youth UK
Abbreviated from STREETCREDSTREET - In the punk era, the word “credible” got tied up with the word “street”. “Street” and “cred” were usually interchangeable but sometimes there were subtle fluctuations in meaning. Everyone was credible providing they did amphetamine sulphate, but if they also spat and swore they were probably “street-cred”. — Simon Napier-Bell, Black Vinyl White Powder, p. 277, 2001
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