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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fizz
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Buck's Fizz
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I dropped the tablet in the glass. It fizzed and dissolved.
▪ The champagne fizzed in the glasses.
▪ The firework fizzed for a moment and then went off with a bang.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Down in the housing scheme there was hardly a noise; the lamps fizzed quietly on the empty street.
▪ Fireworks burst up into the dark sky, then fizz to nothing.
▪ Next to Billy was little Paul Lazzaro with a broken arm. he was fizzing with rabies.
▪ Table Tennis Douglas aims to fizz past a flat champion.
▪ That thing was fizzing in his brain.
▪ The television tubes sputtered and fizzed.
▪ Under his flat tongue, the Nitrostat started to fizz and bring him to life.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Maybe there's a slight fizz of excitement when the day arrives.
▪ New Orleans favours a mid-morning milk punch, or its own variation on the gin fizz.
▪ Shares were given a fizz rising 8p to £2 before slipping to close at 198p.
▪ That change should take the fizz out of the stock market, Mr Lucas figures.
▪ The champagne tasted sharp and dry and it had lost its fizz.
▪ They kissed her and all had another glass of fizz before Charles started the dreary journey back to Willesden on the Underground.
▪ Would make a good mix for Kir Royale or Bucks fizz.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
fizz

fizz \fizz\ (f[i^]z), v. i. [imp. & p. p. fizzed (f[i^]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. fizzing.] [Cf. Icel. f[=i]sa to break wind, Dan. fise to foist, fizzle, OSw. fisa, G. fisten, feisten. Cf. Foist.] To make a hissing sound, such as that of a burning fuse or a bubbling carbonated beverage.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fizz

"make a hissing sound," 1660s, of imitative origin. Related: Fizzed; fizzing. The noun is recorded from 1812; meaning "effervescent drink" is from 1864, from the sound it makes.

Wiktionary
fizz

n. 1 An emission of a rapid stream of bubbles. 2 The sound of such an emission. 3 A carbonated beverage. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To emit bubbles. 2 (context intransitive English) To make a rapid hissing or bubbling sound. 3 (context intransitive English) To shoot or project something moving at great velocity.

WordNet
fizz
  1. n. an effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic)

  2. v. form bubbles; "The boiling soup was frothing"; "The river was foaming"; "Sparkling water" [syn: foam, froth, effervesce, sparkle]

Wikipedia
Fizz (cocktail)

A "fizz" is a mixed drink variation on the older sours family of cocktail. Its defining features are an acidic juice (such as lemon or lime) and carbonated water.

Fizz (disambiguation)

Fizz is another term for carbonation.

"Fizz" can also refer to:

Fizz (novel)

Fizz is a novel by Zvi Schreiber centered on the history of physics. It tells the story of a young woman from the future named Fizz, who time travels to meet physicists such as Aristotle, Galileo, Newton and Einstein, and discuss their work. Fizz brands itself as an "edu-novel" with similarity to the genre of Sophie's World. The book claims to target both young adults and adults, with an amateur interest in physics, as well as teachers and students of physics.

Usage examples of "fizz".

Playing cards, hobnobbing with flash toffs with a swank glass in their eye, adrinking fizz and he half smothered in writs and garnishee orders.

We crackle with cancers, we fizz with synergisms, under the furious and birdless sky.

We finished our fizzes, and Bish and I both wanted repeats, and Dad felt that he had to go along.

From the spot where the body lay came a fierce fizzing and cracking sound, which ceased, however, before the fumes had cleared away.

Jake retrieved two celebratory bottles of Tusker beer from his secret hoard, but the liquid was so warm that half of it exploded in a fizzing gush from the mouth of each bottle as it was opened, and there was only a mouthful for each of them.

The skull resisted, but the anatomist increased his pressure slightly, and Molly felt and heard a fizzing sound as the bone rippled and parted to make way for the metal.

Fizz telephoned the Metropole, chatted amiably to the Maggie for a moment or two, then asked to be put through to Miss Brett as if her call was expected.

That did not appear to mollify the padres, still fizzing and sputtering.

Em-Lin pushed her hands through the morphic skin of the tank and back into the hot, fizzing plasma.

Through those had fizzed the full quota of carbon monoxide produced by a spluttery motor that had an ill-regulated carburetor.

Ramzan Durani of Slow Jinn Fizz had been of the first sort Bakhtiar exemplified the second Everything about him was vertical lines: thin arms and legs, his big, not quite straight nose and the creases to either side of it, the beard worn short on the cheeks and long on the chin that made his face seem even narrower than it was.

I concluded he was a lot like Ramzan Durani of Slow Jinn Fizz: plenty of bluster when he was excited, but a reasonable man underneath.

BBS surround her, the first sphere filled with gaudy advertising, the icons fizzing against her skin, dancing around her like a cloud of insects.

Lucas Quade kiss, flowing tingly champagne bubbles through her veins, fizzing and popping in microbursts of pleasure.

They joined Dia at the bar, flanking her, and ordered a nonalcoholic fruit fizz to match hers.