Meaning

(comics, fiction) A blue pixie with a white stocking cap, from the media franchise The Smurfs..

Definitions by Sense

1. (comics, fiction) A blue pixie with a white stocking cap, from the media franchise The Smurfs.
2. (Internet slang) A smurf account or its user.
3. (computer security) A smurf attack.
4. (law enforcement, drugs, slang) One member of a team, each of whom acquires a small amount of money or ingredients for manufacturing drugs, keeping the transactions too small in order to not raise suspicion.
5. (slang) Used to replace any other verb, as is typical of smurfs.
6. (law enforcement, banking) To split a large financial transaction into smaller ones so as to avoid scrutiny; to carry out structuring.
7. (computer security, transitive) To carry out a smurf attack against someone.
8. (Internet slang) To use a smurf account.

Example Sentences

He occasionally used the proper noun of the restaurant as an adverb, the way a Smurf would.

Each smurf goes to different banks and purchases cashier's checks in denominations of less than $ 10,000, thus bypassing the reporting requirement.

Once the checks and money orders were purchased, the smurfs delivered them to Barrera, who arranged deposits of multiple checks and money orders into bank accounts that he controlled for further transfer to accounts in Panama, Colombia, and elsewhere.

The local cooks would get some smurfs to buy boxes of Sudafed at all the drugstores in a hundred-mile radius, then pay them off in product.

Word Forms

• smurfs
• smurves
• smurfing
• smurfed

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Use smurf when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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