Talk:smear
Latest comment: 4 years ago by Backinstadiums in topic (Transitive, U.S.) defeat somebody (informal) (usually passive)
...is a way of dealing with a leap second, by slightly elongating nearby seconds over an extended period rather than adding the extra second all at once. Wikipedia's article says "Other schemes smear time in the vicinity of a leap second", a sense of "smear" that we seem to lack. Equinox ◑ 00:23, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
(Transitive, U.S.) defeat somebody (informal) (usually passive)
edit(Transitive, U.S.): to severely defeat a competitor or enemy (informal) (usually passive) We got smeared.