Definition of "smurf"

smurf

/smɜːf/

noun
plural smurfs or (rare) smurves
1. (comics, fiction) A blue pixie with white stocking cap, from the media franchise The Smurfs.
  Quotations
  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. (Internet slang) A smurf account.
3. (computer security) A smurf attack.
4. (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.
  Quotations
  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
  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
verb
third-person singular simple present smurfs, present participle smurfing, simple past and past participle smurfed
1. (slang) Used to replace any other verb, as is typical of smurfs.
2. (banking) To split a large financial transaction into smaller ones so as to avoid scrutiny; to carry out structuring.
3. (computer security, transitive) To carry out a smurf attack against someone.
4. (Internet slang) To use a smurf account.

Definition of "smurf"

smurf

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