Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A mass or coating of fine, light fibers, hairs, or particles; down: the fuzz on a peach.
- v. To cover with fine, light fibers, hairs, or particles.
- v. To make blurred or indistinct: fuzzing the difference between the two candidates; worked quickly to fuzz up the details of the scandal.
- v. To become blurred or obscure.
- n. Slang The police.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Fine downy particles, as on the surface of some fruits, as the peach; loose fibers, as on the surface of cloth, or separated from it by friction; loose volatile matter.
- n. A puffball; a fuzzball.
- To fly off in minute particles.
- To intoxicate; fuddle; fuzzle.
Wiktionary
- n. A frizzy mass of hair or fibre.
- n. A blurred image.
- n. computing The random data used in fuzz testing.
- v. transitive Make fuzzy.
- v. intransitive Become fuzzy.
- n. slang, dated, with "the" The police.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To make drunk.
- n. Fine, light particles or fibers; loose, volatile matter.
- v. To fly off in minute particles.
WordNet 3.0
- n. uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- n. a hazy or indistinct representation
- n. filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
- n. the first beard of an adolescent boy
Etymologies
- Unknown (Wiktionary)
- Perhaps back-formation from fuzzy.Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“What the fuzz is all about the man himself said he didnt deserved it.”
“I strongly recommend everyone to go and read the complete series so you can understand what the fuzz is all about.”
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“Given all the resources that hes got plus Ridley as a mentor, I think all fuzz is overated.”
“The S pitch of a fuzz is posted outside, only across a building signifying which this was his handiwork.”
“That little dark bit that looks like left-over fuzz is actually a bit of string wound on and glued down.”
“This particular bundle of fuzz is so ludicrously charming that he managed to draw a crowd out in the parking lot where we met for the exchange.”
“Howard doesn't know the gig's a phony, and either calls the fuzz or doesn't call the fuzz.”
“UG's resident aussie / leb maybe try the moen fuzz. good price for a decent pedal. just looked it up and its called the fuzz moo. when you go back to the store, plug in a big muff and turn the tone knob all the way to the right and see if it doesn't fit the bill.”
“It looks like the white fuzz is going to take out the rest of the world that’s left.”
“April 9th, 2010 at 9: 28 pm tombaker says: fuzz is a-political. that’s why he’s always here.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fuzz’.
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Unknown
coalition, cabinet, tweet, defuse, steep, ancestral, mindset, breach, infraction, egregious, curb, backbite and 282 more...
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MUSIC - jazz
Afro, habanera, pentatonic scale, bop, bebop, jazz, cool jazz, pentatonic, malignment, music genre, jazz musician, syncopate and 437 more...
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Origin unknown
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naked lunch
smother party, dropper, hot shot, fingers of rotten..., fuzz, dunking pound cake, narcotic effluvium, psychic jiujitsu, black insect laug..., Black Meat, bright colors ove..., Mugwump and 15 more...
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Public List: A Facial Hair Stylesheet
Okay guys let me get a visual of you all. Let me know what you carry on your cheeks... anything goes. Slang, Metaphors, you name that thing.
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Cops
police, cops, federales, five-o, pigs, g-man, swat, chips, atf, coppers, fuzz, boys in blue and 84 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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BuffaloBen's Words
sycamore, wipfel, rohlingsspindel, gorgeous, flamboyance, anschmiegen, pengpeng, zuckerhut, revolver, troubleshooter, breeze, dandy and 228 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, F
felony, frolic, fend, fuselage, farthingale, freewheeling, frigorific, flummery, fancypants, felsitic, flagstone, flageolet and 295 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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All Those Jazz Words
Words coined or popularized during the Roaring '20s.
back-seat driver, jalopy, step on it, cop a plea, fuzz, gimmick, hijack, speakeasy, to take (someone)..., cockeyed, scofflaw, shellacked and 74 more...
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Guitarist's Glossary
frets, fretboard, neck, peghead, headstock, tuners, tuning machines, strings, bridge, tremolo, whammy bar, sound hole and 201 more...
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fliti's Words
panache, mushaboom, aubergine, serpentine, glimpse, schadenfreude, syzygy, plethora, zeitgeist, defenestrate, callipygian, ubiquitous and 239 more...
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astrosfan's Words
pantaloons, schadenfreude, astonishing, eve, static, freeze, luscious, voluptuous, stagnant, mimic, speed, vespertillinoid and 302 more...
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Words of weirdness
Weird words that are weird
fjord, rape, carnage, bubbles, wizz, screamery, dominion, panophobia, poopie, gremlin, fuzz, obtain and 103 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for fuzz.

bilby "Despite the venal patronage of Elektra, Transatlantic, Polydor, EMI, Track, Apple, the Inland Revenue and Radio 1, the Underground remains uncharted, unreliable, unrewarding and irresponsible. If everyone who clamours to be of it today were to deny it tomorrow it would exist still. Miss Nicholson may tell the fuzz anything she pleases - her cunt knows better."
- 'The Million-Dollar Underground', Germaine Greer in Oz, 1969. Mar 27, 2008
zacharyr peach fuzz buzz Dec 5, 2006
zacharyr Mudhoney has an album, "March to Fuzz" Dec 5, 2006