Smurf (disambiguation)

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• A Smurf is a fictional tiny blue humanoid, created by Belgian cartoonist Peyo in 1957.
• United Nations peacekeeping troops are often referred to as "smurfs" because of their light blue helmets.
• "Smurfing" is also a technical term related to money laundering.
• "Smurfing" has also been applied in a pun/parody form of the long-standing expression "surfing the web". An example of this can be found here
• "Smurfing" is also a pornographic term referring to striking a female star in the face with a penis repeatedly.
• "The Smurf" is a popping dance move, popular in the 1980s.
• A Smurf attack is a particular type of Denial of service (DoS) attack on computer networks.
• "Smurfing" is also used in verb format to indicate the action of getting a song stuck into a listener's head by singing the same lines repeatedly. The Smurfs television show had what was considered very annoying theme music, involving repeated intonations of the word "La".
• "Smurf", the nickname of Sheree Murphy.
• Fans of Warhammer 40,000 sometimes jokingly refer to the Ultramarines as "smurfs", due to their blue armor.
• A smurf is also an account registered at an online game, forum or messageboard in addition to the user's regular one, often with the intent of disrupting the community. This is possibly more commonly known as a sock puppet.
• In Finnish, "smurffit" (Smurfs) (and in Spanish, "pitufos", Smurfs) is sometimes used as slang for the police. In military slang, "smurffipuku" (Smurf suit) is a name for the standard blue jogging suit used in the Finnish Defence Forces.
• The Smurfs are a pop music band whose music consists entirely of jocular remixes of famous songs by other pop bands.
• Members of the Finnish BDSM support group SMFR are colloquially called Smurfs.

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