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blue Smarties

blue Smarties noun: something that causes great excitement or hyperactivity.

Noun

blue Smarties pl (plural only)

  1. (UK, plural, plural-only, slang) Something that causes great excitement or hyperactivity.
    • .Shearer has an untouchable romance with Tyneside and his appointment seemed to inject the Geordie fans with an overdose of blue Smarties.(Can we date this quote?), Football Friends Media, Two Left Feet, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 53
    • I shot a photographic session based on the beginning part of his act where he dances to the Bee Gees 'Disco Inferno' (a great seventies disco classic by the way) in a style which can best be described as an eight year old overdosed on blue Smarties.1998, Martin Evening, Adobe Photoshop 5.0 for Photographers: An Illustrated Guide to Image Editing and Manipulation in Photoshop

Origin of blue Smarties

From the British chocolate sweet Smarties. The blue-colored Smartie was temporarily withdrawn by the manufacturer until a natural blue dye was found – this led to a popular belief that the blue Smartie was withdrawn for causing hyperactivity, although brilliant blue FCF is not one of the food colourings associated with hyperactivity.

Questions about blue Smarties

What does blue Smarties mean?
Blue Smarties means something that causes great excitement or hyperactivity.
What part of speech is blue Smarties?
Blue Smarties is a noun.

Words near blue Smarties in the dictionary

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  4. blue slip
  5. blue slips
  6. blue Smarties
  7. blue snakeweed
  8. blue space
  9. blue spaces
  10. blue spot
  11. blue spots

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