spaz

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
16
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/spæz/

Definition of spaz

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  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.”
    ““I was so in control from tee to green, the best I’ve played for years… But as soon as I got on the green I was a spaz.””
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noun

  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.”
    ““I was so in control from tee to green, the best I’ve played for years… But as soon as I got on the green I was a spaz.””
  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

verb

  1. (colloquial, derogatory, offensive, slang)To have a tantrum or fit.
  2. (derogatory, offensive, slang)To malfunction, go on the fritz.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From spastic. Compare spasm /ˈspæzəm/.

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