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verb. The act of deliberately frustrating and subtly mocking an arrogant person who is obsessed with seeming intelligent, by repeatedly and unwaveringly defending an absurd position, despite the oblivious target's increasingly desperate attempts to prove you wrong and show themselves as "smart". Named for the infamous "sharks are smooth" twitter/tumblr argument. The principle and the process of smoothsharking was perhaps first described by raptorific on tumblr, although the name was coined by others.
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