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smart arse

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See also: smartarse and smart-arse

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smart arse (plural smart arses)

  1. (idiomatic, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) One who is particularly flippant or insolent or tends to make snide remarks or jokes.
    • 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 51:
      ‘That Howard kid is a smart-arse little bugger!

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