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SMEAR MERCHANTS 

A Term coined by Carl Benjamin (AKA Sargon of Akkad), which describes a people or a group of people who tend to thrive off of dishonestly smearing a person's character, through deceptive or misleading interpretations of their actions or words. Often by taking something they said out of context, and representing it as something completely different .
"I'm not apologizing for anything you dirty, dirty smear merchants"
SMEAR MERCHANTS by GidonGrey July 14, 2020
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Merc work 

This is hired muscle or private warrior jobs.
There are some ex-Delta Force types, you can hire in Fayetteville to take care of the merc work, the bandits by oil line problem.
Merc work by I, Wreckerrr November 2, 2016

Well, sweet mother Theresa on the hood of a Mercedes Benz, you sound like a majestic f*cking eagle 

When you hear Armin Arlert's voice for the first time.
Keith Shadis-- Well, sweet mother Theresa on the hood of a Mercedes Benz, you sound like a majestic f*cking eagle.
Doing paid to posts on Instagram.
Now that Oliver's got 100k followers, he's gonna be merching the fuck out of his IG.
Merching by 1dead June 22, 2019
The origin is from the noun, mercenary. A mercenary is someone who will carry out combat missions but aren't part of an official organization, like the military, or CIA and are usually not motivated by justice or an allegiance. (They are usually motivated by profit) Activities associated with these "rogue agents" or "guns for hire" usually involve violence, and often killing.

So the slang verb "merc" generally means to perpetrate violence, usually killing, but can just mean to beat someone up (usually to teach them a lesson/send a message). Or it can be used figuratively, as in, "that mc just got straight merc'd in that rap battle". Similar figurative expressions could be, "Man, he just got smoked!", "Dude, you totally slaughtered that guy", "Yo, she schooled that chick", "When my boy rocks the mic, he be killin' any sucka mc that steps to him".

Like many slang terms, there is an original way to spell it and variations on spelling that can become widely accepted (it is slang after all, so normal grammar rules do not necessarily apply). Merc is the origin spelling, whereas murc, murk, merk, etc are alternates. Like some people write murda instead of murder, dood instead of dude, or dat instead of that.
"You mess with my girl again and I'll merc your ass."

"We totally merc'd the other team in COD last night."

"A guy walked in with a gun and just started mercin' people left and right."

"I heard those old school mobsters would merc somebody just for looking at them the wrong way"

"Yo, I was spittin' rhymes in this cipher last night and this whack mc stepped to me, but I straight merc'd dat foo."
Merc by mockarena July 17, 2014

mercer-effect 

Synonyms: Matt Mercer Effect, Matthew Mercer Effect

Matthew Mercer is the Dungeon Master of the popular Dungeons & Dragons show "Critical Role".
The "mercer-effect" is what people call it when fans of the show get into D&D carrying the expectation that their sessions should be at least as good or similar to what they've seen in the show, not keeping in mind that the players seen on Critical Role have years of experience in both D&D and acting.
"I hosted a session with some 1st-timers the other night, they wouldn't stop talking about Critical Role and how we should try to play our game more like that."

"Yeah, that's the mercer-effect all right."
mercer-effect by Vseras April 14, 2019
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I had a trucker's tan after driving for 10 straight hours on a sunny day.
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Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
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