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smartie
noun- a shrewd operator; a person who is wise to the various devices used by criminals AUSTRALIA, 1950
- So the smarties have got you on a mug’s list? — Frank Hardy, The Yarns of Billy Borker, p. 59, 1965
- People who had only known him as a “smartie” and a “take” were astounded when the racing world turned out in force to give him a slap-up funeral. — James Holledge, The Great Australian Gamble, p. 145, 1966
- A smartie entered a ring-in for a Maiden Handicap at a bush race meeting. He entered her as an eight-year-old mare unraced. The mare duly bolted in by 10 lengths. — Frank Hardy and Athol George Mulley, The Needy and the Greedy, p. 110, 1975
- Too many smarties think there is a doping ring operating up here. — Clive Galea, Slipper, p. 70, 1988
- an impudent, cheeky person; an offensively smart person AUSTRALIA
- We don’t like smarties around here, Dale, so just you watch it. — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 11, 1969
- Told he was speaking to him, the smartie replied, “That can’t be.” — Roy Higgins and Tom Prior, The Jockey Who Laughed, p. 92, 1982
- I turned around in horror as I soon realised that some smartie had locked me in the toilet. — Rex Hunt, Tall Tales–and True, p. 40, 1994
- an intelligent person AUSTRALIA
- So y’ see, sonny, I’m not such a smartie after all. — Ward McNally, Supper at Happy Harry’s, p. 11, 1982
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