Savvy

[Rihanna]

understand?

[Becky]

Technically means Well-informed, perceptive, or shrewd; in the summer of 2003, fans of Pirates of the Carribean adopted the meaning given to the word by Johnny Depps Catain Jack.

Now used by PotC fans to mean, Get it?

[Couch Potatoe]

to be clued up is to be savvy. comes from the french verbs savoir faire, which means the know how.

[Rihanna]

1. to understand something

2. knowledge

3. knowledgeable
   (from spanish, Sabe, he knows)

[Tanya Shivari]

savvy (sav-ve)adj. To comprhend to understand. To make sure of something. Something sexy. Tod escribe as cool or sophisticated. Sexiest word to come from Johnny Depps lips.

[Little_Girl]

Commonly related to pirates. Meaning to undertsand, or to grasp a concept.

[Rihanna]

a noun or adjective indicating anything a high level of knowledge in some field (i.e. fashion); since The Pirates of the Caribbean came out, it has often been equated with understand
Regarding the etymology of the word, it is most likely another anglified French word, from the original savoir, which means to know. Like parley (also used in Pirates), which means to speak, it was probably absorbed into the English vocabulary back when French was more of a global language.

[Dianne]

Shrewdness and practical knowledge; the ability to make good judgements.