Examples of “smurf” in a Sentence

noun One of the small blue fictional characters from the Belgian comic and cartoon franchise The Smurfs.

• The kids dressed up as a smurf and wore tiny white hats.
• Painted blue from head to toe, he looked like a smurf at the party.
• Her son's bedroom is covered in Smurf posters.

noun In gaming, a skilled player who creates a new low-level account to play against much weaker opponents.

• That "beginner" was clearly a smurf — no new player plays that well.

verb In finance or crime, to break up a large transaction into many small ones to avoid detection.

• The accountant was smurfing deposits to stay under the reporting threshold.