Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who is considered clumsy or inept.
- v. To be clumsy or inept.
Wiktionary
- n. slang, pejorative, offensive A stupid person.
- n. slang, pejorative, offensive A hyperactive person.
- n. slang, pejorative, offensive An incompetent person.
- n. slang, pejorative, offensive A tantrum, a fit.
- v. slang, pejorative, offensive To have a tantrum or fit.
- v. slang, offensive To malfunction, go on the fritz.
Etymologies
- From spastic. (Wiktionary)
- Short for spastic and spasm. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I'm not sure whose side I'm on in this case ... spaz is saying spaz in the uk like saying bomb on an airplane? theJOker”
“Hmm, over here in the UK, a spaz is someone mentally and physically handicapped.”
“For the reader who asked about American usage of the word "spaz”
“We had an interesting situation on a message board I use when an American used the term 'spaz', which they subsequently described as a casual term, non-offensive and widely-used in their culture.”
“Maybe the thing you most object to about Goebells is that he was a 'spaz'?”
“UPDATE: Apology and recognition that "spaz" isn't considered offensive in the United States.”
“After one song, I overheard somebody dismissing them as "some kind of spaz band".”
“So if you’ve ever been called a spaz, or a dork, or a geek.”
“When an amateur jock - whether he's President of the United States or your friendly UPS driver from the neighborhood - says he played like a "spaz," as we used to say, or physically handicapped, he implies no harm nor foul.”
“Lastly, I had the screen "spaz" on me once or twice when the ball was in-play.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘spaz’.
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funny & derogatory
WARNING: VERY EXPLICIT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
funny derogatory names, quotes, phrases.
( open list, randomness, ad hom, ad hominem )
also see:
buttfucking quitter, dirty sanchez, donkey punch, falcon punch, assbadger, unicorn turd, assclown, fudgenut, quackery, friggin homo, buttmuncher, jackwagon and 278 more... -
IxLovexApples's list
this is a list of the words I use the most. if you look at all of them you can kind of tell my personality.
bitch, hot, kool, wow, wtf, omfg, slut, ass, gay, ugh, bleh, spaz and 12 more...
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MiaLuthien's list ♥
gambit, prehensile, coquetry, impunity, genuflect, ensconce, clavicle, delude, beget, castigate, life caching, convoluted and 478 more...
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Name-Calling for Fun and Profit
I figured out the thing all these terms have in common, besides that they can be used as insults. They all crack me up.
drip, yahoo, dweeb, nimrod, wanker, nincompoop, weasel, skank, fussbudget, dink, twit, guttersnipe and 125 more...
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kenzie's Words
epiphany, rhapsody, melody, cacophany, zenith, meticulous, sly, portent, synchronicity, juggernaut, evensong, script and 99 more...
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twits
for followers of twelveplusone
spaz, failwhale, webcock, dickjam, fuck me in the horse, monopod, acatalectic, frecency
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Fun Words
Words that have funny meanings or are just fun to say.
kumquat, chimichanga, sarsparilla, rutabaga, rumpus, flummox, encrusted, prestidigitation, pomegranate, preposterous, dentiloquist, sepulchre and 323 more...
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DYSLEXIC'S DREAD
Words That Make Sense in Reverse Too! Bad news for a dyslexic, 'cause s/he's got no clue if s/he read the word correctly or not, as opposed to a palindrome (i.e., no mistake possible, cf. "Dyslexic...
tool, lever, nap, pool, leer, leek, desserts, strop, doom, ukiah, yaws, ward and 213 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1696 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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my dictionary
palatial, immaculate, sleep-deprived, Kleptocracy, customs brokerage, parochial, stagnation, egregious, rife, interdict, unassuming, extortion and 81 more...
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Letters, October-December
Interesting words from communications between me and boychild from October to December 2008.
cunnilingus, transcendentalism, snakecharm, snork, gaggle, efterklang, lamé, arbitrarily, ramsey, gothish, prettyboy, purification and 25 more...
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"Z" Words
Scrabble List
zyme, zori, zoos, zoon, zoom, zonk, zone, zoic, zoea, zits, ziti, zing and 76 more...
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Words That Remind Me Of Kimberley
See...list name?
cupcake, random, dessert, gibberish, spaz, logophilia, bibliophile, art, jewish, spam, kimberlite, michigan and 30 more...
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chicie's words she likes
well, i kinda just signed up two seconds ago, and don't really know what i'm doing yet. so here i'll add words i like. some i know i like more than others, but i'll sort that out later.
maniacal, delusional, rather, ah, lugubrious, cadaver, ish, cellar door, penumbra, elusive, ethereal, punctilious and 22 more...
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My favorite phrases
your face, your mom, your gramma's roof, awkward turtle, awkward starfish, silent moose, spaz, spaz attack, minor tiz, nervous breakdown, smarter than the ..., violently mistaken and 1 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for spaz.
cricket Usually anger accompanied by confusion and comic drama directed at friends and/or family as the result of some catastrophic trifle. Mar 4, 2008
oroboros Zaps in reverse. Jul 22, 2007