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spazz

spazz is the alternative spelling of spaz.

Meaning of spaz

Noun

spaz (plural spazzes)

  1. (derogatory, offensive, slang) An incompetent or physically uncoordinated person; a spazmo.
    • In fact, it was the view of the scientists now in charge […] that the freakier they were, the better; if a mental spaz could go through and come out all right […] then the process was probably safe for the executives, politicians, and fashion models of the world.1981, Stephen King, The Jaunt
  2. (derogatory, offensive, slang) A hyperactive, erratically behaving person.
  3. (derogatory, offensive, slang) A tantrum or fit.
  4. (derogatory, offensive, slang) A person with spastic paralysis, spastic cerebral palsy or epilepsy

See all 6 meanings of spaz

Forms of spazz

Noun
pluralspazzes
Verb
third-person singular presentspazzes
present participlespazzing
past participlespazzed
pastspazzed

Phrases with spazz

Questions about spazz

What is spazz the alternative spelling of?
Spazz is the alternative spelling of spaz.

Words near spazz in the dictionary

  1. spaza
  2. spazas
  3. spazm
  4. spazmo
  5. spazmos
  6. spazz
  7. spazz out
  8. spazzed
  9. spazzed out
  10. spazzer
  11. spazzers

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