spaz

plural spazzes · alternative spazz

1. derogatoryoffensiveslangAn incompetent or physically uncoordinated person; a spazmo.

   “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.”

   2006, Tiger Woods, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

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   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.

   1981, Stephen King, The Jaunt

2. derogatoryoffensiveslangA hyperactive, erratically behaving person.
3. derogatoryoffensiveslangA tantrum or fit.
4. derogatoryoffensiveslangA person with spastic paralysis, spastic cerebral palsy or epilepsy

present singular third person spazzes · participle present spazzing · participle past spazzed · past spazzed · alternative spazz

1. colloquialderogatoryoffensiveslangTo have a tantrum or fit.

   Synonyms: freak out

2. derogatoryoffensiveslangTo malfunction, go on the fritz.