- savvy⇄adj. intelligent; sensible; knowing.
Ex. a savvy farm spokesman and Ike's campaign adviser on agriculture (Time). - savvy⇄noun understanding; intelligence; sense.
Ex. I said he had savvy enough to find the index in ""Gray's Anatomy"" (Sinclair Lewis). Author Laing shows enough savvy about supermarkets to have been born and bred in one (Time). - savvy⇄savvy, verb, -vied,-vying,noun, adjective.
(Slang.) - savvy⇄v.t., v.i. to know; understand.
Ex. You think you are wise, but there's a lot of things you don't savvy (Owen Wister).