Smurf Definition
smûrf
smurfs
verb
To disable (a computer network) with a smurf attack.
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To engage in a smurf attack.
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To buy as much pseudoephedrine as is legally permitted in each of numerous stores over a wide area in order to obtain enough to produce methamphetamine.
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(banking) To structure a deposit; to split a large financial transaction into smaller ones so as to avoid scrutiny.
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noun
A fictional character, a blue pixie with white stocking cap, from the media franchise The Smurfs.
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(Internet slang) A smurf account.
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(computing, security) A smurf attack.
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Origin of Smurf
Sense 1, after the smurf exploit program used to make smurf attacks in the late 1990s Both senses ultimately after the Smurfs a race of very small blue gnomelike creatures in comic strips by Belgian comic strip artist Pierre Culliford, later featured in a popular television series
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From De Smurfen, Dutch (Flemish) translation of Les Schtroumpfs (1958) by Pierre Culliford, in Le Journal de Spirou (Dutch: Robbedoes).
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