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smooth shark

smooth shark verb: to troll (a person) in a debate by posting continual false rebuttals of their arguments.

Verb

smooth shark (third-person singular simple present smooth sharks, present participle smooth sharking, simple past and past participle smooth sharked)

  1. (Internet) To troll (a person) in a debate by posting continual false rebuttals of their arguments.

Forms of smooth shark

third-person singular presentsmooth sharks
present participlesmooth sharking
past participlesmooth sharked
pastsmooth sharked

Origin of smooth shark

In reference to Web cartoonist Brandon Reese, who pursued an argument of this kind with a reader in 2017, repeatedly claiming that sharks have smooth skin.

Questions about smooth shark

What does smooth shark mean?
Smooth shark means to troll (a person) in a debate by posting continual false rebuttals of their arguments.
What part of speech is smooth shark?
Smooth shark is a verb.
What is the past tense of smooth shark?
The past tense of smooth shark is smooth sharked.

Words near smooth shark in the dictionary

  1. smooth operator
  2. smooth operators
  3. smooth out
  4. smooth over
  5. smooth sailing
  6. smooth shark
  7. smooth sharked
  8. smooth sharking
  9. smooth sharks
  10. smooth snake
  11. smooth snakes

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