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Spaz

//spæz// noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    An incompetent or physically uncoordinated person; a spazmo. derogatory, offensive, slang

    "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."

  2. 2
    A hyperactive, erratically behaving person. derogatory, offensive, slang
  3. 3
    A tantrum or fit. derogatory, offensive, slang
  4. 4
    A person with spastic paralysis, spastic cerebral palsy or epilepsy derogatory, offensive, slang
Verb
  1. 1
    To have a tantrum or fit. colloquial, derogatory, offensive, slang
  2. 2
    to act insanely wordnet
  3. 3
    To malfunction, go on the fritz. derogatory, offensive, slang

Etymology

Etymology 1

From spastic.

Etymology 2

From spastic.

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