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SHMEAR

Dictionary entry overview: What does shmear mean?

• SHMEAR (noun)
The noun SHMEAR has 1 sense:

1. (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together

Familiarity information: SHMEAR used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SHMEAR (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

(Yiddish) a batch of things that go together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

schmear; schmeer; shmear

Context example:

he bought the whole schmeer

Hypernyms ("shmear" is a kind of...):

batch; clutch (a collection of things or persons to be handled together)

Domain category:

Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)

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