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smurf

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  • //smɜːf//
  • //smɝf//

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

sostantivo

  1. 1

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

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

  2. 2

    A smurf account or its user.

  3. 3

    A smurf attack.

  4. 4

    gergoOne 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.

    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.

Etimologia

Borrowed from Dutch smurf (via the Belgian comic De Smurfen, a translation of French Les Schtroumpfs), from French schtroumpf, a word that was created by Peyo based on German Strumpf (literally “stocking, sock”) while he was having dinner, either simply because it sounds funny to the French ear or based on a regional German use for “idiot”. Armand van Raalte was an employee for the Belgian publisher of Peyo's stories who felt that schtroumpf would not have the same effect in Dutch, so he tried to find a simple word that could be used both as a noun and a verb. The result was smurf. In other languages, the term was similarly altered; compare the translations below.

verbo

  1. 1

    gergoUsed to replace any other verb, as is typical of smurfs.

  2. 2

    To split a large financial transaction into smaller ones so as to avoid scrutiny; to carry out structuring.

  3. 3

    To carry out a smurf attack against someone.

  4. 4

    To use a smurf account.

  5. 5

    To use a smurf account. To perform exceptionally well, as if using a smurf account, playing much inferior opponents.

    He has been absolutely smurfing this season.

    Oh my god, he smurfed that fight so hard!

Forme

plurale
smurfs, smurves
passato
smurfed
participio passato
smurfed
participio presente
smurfing
3ª persona singolare
smurfs
Le pagine vicineL'ordine alfabetico segue le regole della lingua, non il valore dei byte: un accento distingue soltanto due parole per il resto identiche, e lo spagnolo tratta la Ñ come una lettera a sé.

Contenuto lessicale tratto da Wiktionary, sotto licenza CC BY-SA 4.0 · Voce di origine · Versione dei dati 2026-08-23

Posizione tra le parole del corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — sottotitoli di film e serie, quindi lingua parlata e non scritta (CC BY-SA 3.0).