smarts
Speech parts
1. smarts - Noun
2. smarts - Verb
Meaning
smarts
third-person singular simple present indicative of smart
smarts pl (plural only)
(informal, chiefly US) intelligence; smartness
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Examples
Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, With a third dog one of the two dogs meets With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.
Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.
He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people.
I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.
What smarts teaches.