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Meaning of "smurfing" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SMURFING

From smurf, the name of the type of computer program used to carry out such attacks.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SMURFING

smurfing  [ˈsmɜːfɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SMURFING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Smurfing is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SMURFING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Smurfing

Smurfing is a term that originated with vernacular used by the fictional characters known as The Smurfs. While speaking, Smurfs tend to replace a verb with some form of the word "smurf". It may also refer to: ▪ Structuring, a practice where transactions such as money transfers or drug purchases are conducted repeatedly in small amounts to avoid suspicion ▪ Smurfing in networking, also known as a Smurf attack ▪ In online gaming, smurfing happens when a player of a certain skill level will play under another persons or secondary account to appear to be a lower rank or skill level. ▪ Smurfing is a term law enforcement and illicit drug distributors use to refer to the hiring individuals to purchase pseudoephedrine in order to exceed legal purchase limits in order to manufacture of illicit drugs such as methamphetamine.

Definition of smurfing in the English dictionary

The definition of smurfing in the dictionary is the activity of using a specially designed computer program to attack a computer network by flooding it with messages, thereby rendering it inoperable. Other definition of smurfing is the activity of laundering money by conducting a large number of small transactions through banks and bureaux de change.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SMURFING


astroturfing
ˈæstrəʊˌtɜːfɪŋ
bodysurfing
ˈbɒdɪˌsɜːfɪŋ
briefing
ˈbriːfɪŋ
channel-surfing
ˈtʃænəlsɜːfɪŋ
couchsurfing
ˈkaʊtʃˌsɜːfɪŋ
debriefing
ˌdiːˈbriːfɪŋ
kitesurfing
ˈkaɪtˌsɜːfɪŋ
laughing
ˈlɑːfɪŋ
morphing
ˈmɔːfɪŋ
netsurfing
ˈnɛtsɜːfɪŋ
roofing
ˈruːfɪŋ
rustproofing
ˈrʌstˌpruːfɪŋ
skysurfing
ˈskaɪˌsɜːfɪŋ
snowsurfing
ˈsnəʊˌsɜːfɪŋ
soundproofing
ˈsaʊndpruːfɪŋ
staffing
ˈstɑːfɪŋ
strafing
ˈstrɑːfɪŋ
surfing
ˈsɜːfɪŋ
waterproofing
ˈwɔːtəpruːfɪŋ
windsurfing
ˈwɪndˌsɜːfɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SMURFING

smugger
smuggery
smuggest
smuggle
smuggler
smuggling
smuggling ring
smugly
smugness
smur
smurred
smurring
smurry
smush
smut
smutch
smutchy
Smuts
smutted
smuttily

WORDS THAT END LIKE SMURFING

air surfing
ballot-box stuffing
bluesnarfing
buffing
card surfing
crowd surfing
effing
ego surfing
golfing
huffing
in the offing
offing
perfing
press briefing
safe surfing
shoulder surfing
sniffing
sofa surfing
spoofing
stuffing

Synonyms and antonyms of smurfing in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «smurfing» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SMURFING

Find out the translation of smurfing to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of smurfing from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «smurfing» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

化整为零
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

smurfing
570 millions of speakers

English

smurfing
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

smurfing
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التركيب او التجزئة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Smurfing
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

smurfing
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

smurfing
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

schtroumpfage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Smurfing
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Smurfing
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

スマーフィング
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

머핑
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Smurfing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

smurfing
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மூலம் smurfing
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्कर्फिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

şirince
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

smurfing
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Smurfing
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Smurfing
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

smurfing
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

smurfing
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

smurfing
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

smurfing
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

smurfing
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of smurfing

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SMURFING»

The term «smurfing» is regularly used and occupies the 108.200 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SMURFING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «smurfing» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «smurfing» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about smurfing

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SMURFING»

Discover the use of smurfing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to smurfing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Organized Crime: Policing Illegal Business Entrepreneurialism
This next example of CMM involves a money-laundering method which is becoming very prominent, that of 'smurfing'. The term 'smurfing' was first used in the United States according to Madinger (2006) but originates from cartoon figures in ...
Geoff Dean, Petter Gottschalk, Ivar Fahsing, 2010
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Drugs and Money: Laundering Latin America's Cocaine Dollars
This evidence was not long in coming, and in February l98l, Kattan was arrested with two drug traffickers and eventually convicted of cocaine possession and money laundering (Le., CTR violations).1 SMURFING The use of multiple small- time ...
Robert E. Grosse, 2001
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Network Defense: Security Policy and Threats
Smurfing is a type of DoS attack. This attack occurs when a hacker sends a data packet from a router that is on the victim computer's network. This packet broadcasts a ping to try to get replies from every computer on that network. This attack ...
EC-Council, 2010
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The Weather-smurfing Machine
Handy Smurf's machine to control the weather creates more problems than it solves.
‎1982
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Integrity in Mobile Phone Financial Services: Measures for ...
Smurfing. In banking, smurfing refers to the splitting of a large financial transaction into multiple smaller transactions (each of which is below a minimum limit above which banks report financial transactions) precisely to evade scrutiny by ...
‎2008
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Responding to Money Laundering
sent by the banks to AUSTRAC for checking and the checking process involves a variety of pattern matching and other computer-based detection routines.12 3.3 Anti-smurfing deposit aggregation requirements Internal controls by financial ...
Ernesto Savona, 2005
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Rethinking Money Laundering & Financing of Terrorism in ...
The deposit of funds with financial institutions might be practiced through the use of 'smurfing'99 opera- tions. 'Smurfing' refers to the act of dividing a large sum into small amounts, mak- ing a series of small payments into bank accounts.
Roberto Durrieu, 2013
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Criminal Law
Smurfing. With drug-trafficking revenues as high as $300 billion a year, many drug dealers and other criminals reap huge profits. a large amount of such criminal profits is spent purchasing expensive cars, houses, condos, jewelry, furs, clothing ...
Thomas Gardner, Terry Anderson, 2014
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Money Laundering: A Guide for Criminal Investigators, Third ...
CASH $3,000,000 SMURFING OPERATION Money Laundering Scheme - Illegal Drug. I. can't. say. I. was. ever. lost,. but. I. was. bewildered. once. for. three.days. Daniel Boone, pioneer Our.life.is.frittered.away.by.detail....Simplify,.simplify.
John Madinger, 2011
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Mobile Access Safety: Beyond BYOD
Smurfing The smurfing or reflection attack, is classified as a Denial of Service ( DOS). It consists of the attacker sending ICMP echo request queries to the broadcast address of a network, forging (“spoofing”) its source IP address with that of the ...
Dominique Assing, Stéphane Calé, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SMURFING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term smurfing is used in the context of the following news items.
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Anti-smurfing conference in Tulsa
Smurfing is knowingly or unknowingly buying cold and allergy medication with pseudoephedrine and selling or trading them to people who make meth. «KOKI FOX 23, Jul 15»
2
Gospel for Asia Admits Money Smurfing; Legal Counsel On Board
On the money smurfing, it is now clear that the ECFA leaders now know this was happening. We also learn here (not from the “transparent” GFA but from GFA's ... «Patheos, Jun 15»
3
According to US Customs and Border Protection, Smurfing
Cash On May 14, I wrote that several Gospel for Asia staff and students had reported to me that they were asked to carry envelopes of cash to India without ... «Patheos, Jun 15»
4
East Tenn. lawmakers, pharmacies start Anti-Smurfing campaign
Pharmacies, lawmakers and various state agencies are working together to stop smurfing, which is when people buy cold and allergy medicines for the purpose ... «WATE 6 On Your Side, May 15»
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Local pharmacy and state lawmakers combat meth 'smurfing'
Smurfing is the act of purchasing pseudoephedrine products on behalf of methamphetamine dealers so the dealers can cook meth. Pseudoephedrine is a key ... «WMC Action News 5, May 15»
6
Paperwork averse man faced federal charge
Ambroziak pleaded guilty to conduct known as “structuring” or “smurfing”, which was detected by Australian Federal Police, who searched several of his ... «Perth Now, Nov 14»
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On spoofing, smurfing, Ebola and branding outrage
It's a reference to the little blue workers of movies, TV, toy and book fame who use "smurf" in place of various words. Appropriately, like "spoofing," "smurfing" ... «Chicago Tribune, Oct 14»
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Oklahoma Stepping Up Effort To Crackdown On 'Smurfing'
Authorities also rely on pharmacists like Chris Schiller to tip them off when someone is smurfing or buying cold meds that will end up in meth; it's a challenge ... «News On 6, Sep 14»
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Michigan Lawmakers Target Meth Production, 'Smurfing'
Legislation that criminalizes smurfing passed the state House 105-3 on Thursday. It's part of a bipartisan package of seven bills that take aim at meth makers by ... «CBS Local, Jun 14»
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Four charged with meth 'smurfing' in St. Marys
The diversion method known to law enforcement as “smurfing,” is meant to circumvent federal limits on sales of pharmecuticals containing pseudoephedrine and ... «Bradford Era, Mar 14»

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