smart off
verb
smarted off; smarting off; smarts off
US, informal
: to say rude and irritating things to someone
Ignore her, she is just smarting off again.
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Around the half-hour mark, King combined with Iwobi and made a smart off-the-ball run to open a passing lane to Sessegnon, with the left-back seeing his shot saved by Caoimhin Kelleher.
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Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025
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Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025
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