Examples from the web for smarty-pants
- If this smarty-pants machine is cleverer than me then it needs to prove itself.
- Instead, it tosses brain twisters at four smarty-pants who are lured into a trap.
- With that many techno-smarty-pants in a group, everyone is paranoid about cabals and back-room deals.
- In our smarty-pants media culture, idealism is out of style.
- smarty-pants kids would say one thing and mean another thing entirely and drive their parents mad.
British Dictionary definitions for smarty-pants
noun 1. (functioning as sing) (informal) a would-be clever person
Slang definitions & phrases for smarty-pants
smarty-pants
noun smart aleck; smart-ass, smarty: That smarty-pants always gives a flip answer (1930s+)