Usually means: Clever, often irritatingly sarcastic person.
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  1. smart-aleck, smart aleck: Merriam-Webster
  2. smart aleck: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. smart aleck: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. smart-aleck, smart-aleck, smart aleck: Collins English Dictionary
  5. smart aleck: Vocabulary.com
  6. smart-aleck: Wordnik
  7. smart aleck: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. smart-aleck, smart aleck: Wiktionary
  9. smart aleck: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. smart aleck: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. smart-aleck, smart aleck: Dictionary.com
  12. smart-aleck: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Smart aleck, The Smart Aleck: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. smart aleck: Rhymezone
  15. smart aleck: FreeDictionary.org
  16. smart aleck: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Smart Aleck: The Word Detective
  18. smart-aleck, smart aleck: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. smart aleck: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. smart aleck: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See smart-aleck as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (smart aleck)

noun:  One who is given to obnoxious or insolent humor.
noun:  One who is pretentious about their own cleverness or knowledge.
noun:  One who is obnoxiously self-assured; a show off.
noun:  (rare) A well-dressed person.

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