Meanings
nounsmartman (plural smartmen)
plural smartmen
- Trinidad and TobagoA conman.
The steelband movement has always had an attraction for "smartmen" — men who saw the movement as something to be exploited. These smartmen came in all guises, as the following story illustrates.
1991, George Goddard, Forty years in the steelbands, 1939-1979, page 120
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