fizz

plural fizzes

1. countableuncountableAn emission of a rapid stream of bubbles.

   I poured a cola and waited for the fizz to settle down before topping off the glass.

   Synonyms: effervescence, foam, froth, head, bubble, fizzle, hiss, sputter

2. countableuncountableThe sound of such an emission.

   Evan sat back in the hot tub and listened to the relaxing fizz and pops produced by the eruption of bubbles.

3. countableuncountableA carbonated beverage, especially champagne.

   Nathan ordered an orange fizz from the soda jerk at the counter.

   1 more example

   When he had returned with what remained unslopped of two glasses of fizz, she was still there, waiting for him.

   2020, Alan Jones, Surrogate

   Synonyms: pop, seltzer, soda, tonic

present singular third person fizzes · participle present fizzing · participle past fizzed · past fizzed

1. intransitiveTo emit bubbles.

   Synonyms: bubble, effervesce, foam, froth

2. intransitiveTo make a rapid hissing or bubbling sound.

   the fizzing fuse of a bomb

   Synonyms: fizzle, hiss, sizzle, sputter

3. intransitiveTo shoot or project something at great velocity.

   Each lad tried to send his [burning] disc fizzing and flaring through the darkness as far as possible.

   1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 10, page 119

   1 more example

   And just before the interval, Kolarov, who was having one of his better games in a City shirt, fizzed in a cracker from 30 yards which the Wolves stopper unconvincingly pushed behind for a corner.

   2011 January 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Man City 4 - 3 Wolves”, in BBC