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schmear
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schmeer also schmear or shmear  (shmîr)
n. Slang
A number of things that go together; an aggregate: bought the whole schmeer.

[Yiddish shmir, smear, smudge, from shmirn, to smear, grease, from Middle High German smiren, from Old High German smirwen.]

schmear, schmeer [ʃmɪə]
n
US informal a situation, matter, or affair (esp in the phrase the whole schmear)
[from Yiddish shmirn to smear or grease]
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Noun1.schmear - (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together; "he bought the whole schmeer"
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
batch, clutch - a collection of things or persons to be handled together
Translations
schmear
n (US inf)
(= bribe)Bestechung f
the whole schmeardas ganze Drumherum or Brimborium (inf)


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