smurf

plural smurfs · plural rare smurves

1. comicsA 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.

   2021 December 8, Geraldine DeRuiter, “Bros., Lecce: We Eat at The Worst Michelin Starred Restaurant, Ever”, in The Everywhereist

2. InternetA smurf account or its user.
3. computer securityA smurf attack.
4. slangdrugsOne 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.

   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.

   2020, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Winter Counts, page 22

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

   1998, Michael D. Lyman, Gary W. Potter, Drugs in Society: Causes, Concepts, and Control, page 202

   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.

   2001, Robert E. Grosse, Drugs and Money: Laundering Latin America's Cocaine Dollars, page 73

present singular third person smurfs · participle present smurfing · participle past smurfed · past smurfed

1. slangUsed to replace any other verb, as is typical of smurfs.
2. bankingTo split a large financial transaction into smaller ones so as to avoid scrutiny; to carry out structuring.
3. transitivecomputer securityTo carry out a smurf attack against someone.
4. InternetTo use a smurf account.
   1. InternetbroadlyintransitivetransitiveTo perform exceptionally well, as if using a smurf account, playing much inferior opponents.

      Oh my god, he smurfed that fight so hard!

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      He has been absolutely smurfing this season.