Book Smart Edit Meaning

1.

Being able to succeed scholastically, and not necessarily in the real world.

sure she's book smart, but she can't cook a potato!

See Malinda

2.

To excel with academia, and SUCK with real life.

A book smart professor was hit by a bus. Brilliant on paper, dull in life.

See booksmart, social retard, nerd, dork, geek, dweeb

3.

A disparaging term used by D-students to rationalize their academic failings.

I may be a sociology major with a 1.5 GPA, but that just means I'm not BOOK smart!

See dumbass, moron, poser, dildo, retard

4.

Academically inclined. Studiously clever.

He might be book smart, but every time you send him out to buy some smoke he gets bitch slapped by the dealer who palms him off with skanky brown horseshit.

5.

Intelligence that comes naturally without having to work hard to maintain said intelligence.

You can be intelligent, but not necessarily have book smart.