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What is a smart alec?

What is a smart alec? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Alternative spelling of smart aleck
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No smart alec gets the best of me, even if he has got a month's contract.
It'll be gone in a minute, hopefully no-one will put the screen image with the real person at the bar together as the same and then come out with some smart Alec comment.
John let Smart Alec sit there on his desk in his study, and at one in the morning he heard it speak to him in his mind.
You will always get one smart Alec trying to catch you out and looking for a story but Glenn has merely been honest.
For this set I'm thinking Larry Clark, Donald Sultan's Cigar Bar, Jack Ruby's strip joint in Dallas in the late '50s, the bedroom in Candy Barr's film Smart Alec.
A few years ago, some smart Alec put a big red dot on the internet and invited anyone and everyone to press it, to see what would happen.

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