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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fuzz \Fuzz\ (f[u^]z), v. t.
To make drunk. [Obs.]
--Wood.
Fuzz \Fuzz\, n. [Cf. Prov. E. fuzzy that ravels (of silk or cotton), D. voos spongy, fungous, G. faser filament. E. feaze to untwist.] Fine, light particles or fibers; loose, volatile matter.
Fuzz ball, a kind of fungus or mushroom, which, when pressed, bursts and scatters a fine dust; a puffball.
Fuzz \Fuzz\, v. i. To fly off in minute particles.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, fusse, first attested in fusball "puff ball of tiny spores," of uncertain origin; perhaps a back-formation from fuzzy, if that word is older than the record of it. Meaning "the police" is American English, 1929, underworld slang; origin, signification, and connection to the older word unknown. Perhaps a variant of fuss, with a notion of "hard to please."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A frizzy mass of hair or fibre. 2 A blurred image. 3 (context computing English) The random data used in fuzz testing. 4 (context obsolete English) A state of befuddlement. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make fuzzy. 2 (context intransitive English) To become fuzzy. 3 (context transitive dated English) To make drunk. Etymology 2
n. (context slang dated with "the" English) The police.
WordNet
n. filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz" [syn: hair, tomentum]
uncomplimentary terms for a policeman [syn: bull, cop, copper, pig]
a hazy or indistinct representation; "it happened so fast it was just a blur"; "he tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz" [syn: blur]
the first beard of an adolescent boy
Wikipedia
Fuzz is a derogatory slang term for police officers.
Fuzz may also refer to:
Fuzz is a 1972 American action comedy film directed by Richard A. Colla, and stars Burt Reynolds, Yul Brynner, Raquel Welch, Tom Skeritt and Jack Weston.
The screenplay was written by Evan Hunter, based on the 1968 novel of the same name that was part of the " 87th Precinct" series he wrote under the name Ed McBain. Dave Grusin composed the film's soundtrack score.
Unlike the series 87th Precinct, which is set in a fictional metropolis based in New York City, Fuzz is set and was shot on location in Boston, Massachusetts.
James Robert Lombard, (born 9 February 1952), professionally known by his stage name Fuzz, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, actor, record producer and composer noted for being the frontman of the band Inferno.
Fuzz began his career in 1969 at the age of 17, when he formed Inferno alongside MacMick, Leon O'Brien and James Coolridge. He is responsible for writing all of their hit singles, including their debut single "We Are Infernal", along with "The Collision", "A Border of Hate Between Love", "Building Beauty", "The Big Blue Sea", "The One That Got Away", "She Has The Features of Life", "Stories of Love" and "The North-Side Tale". Fuzz left the band in 1977 and MacMick took his place as lead singer. He re-joined the band in 1984 and remained in it again until the band split in 1997. The band recently got back together in 2008.
Fuzz's acting career has also been made notorious. After a film debut as an unaccredited extra in the 1978 film The Class of Miss MacMichael, he then played Jameson in Scum, Nicky in Quadrophenia and even appeared as himself in Birth of the Beatles, all three films released in 1979. Fuzz then appeared in more films including Billy Morrison in The Hit (1984), Mickey Thompson in The League of Darrell McGhee (1995) and Mr Wilkins in The History Boys (2006).
Fuzz enjoyed a successful solo career between 1977 and 1984 and again between 1997 and 2008, releasing singles including "Snare", "Love Craft", "Becky and I" and "Disco Dancers". He also released his own cover version of " Memories Are Made of This" in 1983, which was originally written and performed by Dean Martin in 1956.
Fuzz is the third and final studio album by Canadian rock band Junkhouse. The album was recorded in the fall of 1996 at a converted church studio in Hamilton called Catherine North, which was co-owned by guitarist Dan Achen. This is Junkhouse's only album to feature Colin Cripps. The album features the hit singles "Pearly White" and "Shine".
Fuzz is the debut studio album by native Californian band Fuzz. released on October 1, 2013, by the independent record company In the Red Records. The album features a traditional heavy metal and hard rock sound in the vein of Blue Cheer, High Tide, Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple
Fuzz is an American rock band from California, formed in 2011. The band consists of Charles Moothart (vocals, guitar), Ty Segall (vocals, drums) and Chad Ubovich (vocals, bass)
Created as an outlet for Moothart's affection for hard rock riffs, Fuzz began as collaboration between Moothart and Segall, while Moothart performed in Segall's live band. In 2012, the pair released two singles, "This Time I Got a Reason" and "Sleigh Ride", and were joined by bass guitarist Roland Cosio.
In October 2013, the band released its self-titled debut album, Fuzz. While touring the album, Chad Ubovich (Meatbodies and Mikal Cronin Band) replaced Cosio on bass. In October 2015, Fuzz released their second album, entitled II, written in a more collaborative manner than the band members were used to.
Usage examples of "fuzz".
A mile or two distant, the road crossed a small river that ran from right to left towards the Gulf of Cambaye, which was barely visible as a grayish fuzz on the eastern horizon.
His eyelids, now delicately fuzzed with byrus, rippled as the eyeballs beneath them moved.
The cobblestone-size rocks were all fuzzed with the yellow-brown muck, and he wondered how he could identify any of the shaggy lumps as a severed head.
This heart-touched soppiness I suddenly felt had nothing whatever to do with the fact that the golden-brown fuzz on his arm was within shivering distance of my own arm, of course.
The next day he was working on the laptop when his spreadsheet fuzzed away into the ether, to be replaced by a badly drawn image of a bird bursting into a blaze of flame.
Most housing had been swallowed by beds of swampy fuzz, but a few buildings were so larded with chemical fungicides and brews of biological toxins that local bacilli and thallophytes had never established a foothold.
I pulled the transparent flap of my thermo-skin bag across my face and managed pretty well, and I noticed that Tweel used some feathery appendages growing like a mustache at the base of his beak to cover his nostrils, and some similar fuzz to shield his eyes.
His powder-blue coat bunches up thickly and the unbarbered fuzz of hairs on the back of his neck shows up, the filaments refracting the courtroom lights.
He was standing on his feet when Red Fred, alerted by the almost osmotic disappearance of Doc Lem Architrave, observed that the fuzz had made the scene after all.
There were several different kinds: huge black bumblebees, a smaller kind, striped with black and yellow fuzz, and the smooth lethal shapes of wasps, bellies pointed as daggers.
All he could see initially was a fuzz of diffused polychromatic light which crept around the disordered lines of the lead panels.
He had pink fuzz on his head that made him look like a beguiling putto and newborn blue eyes already touched with green and a gurgling coo that instantly charmed.
Buddhist lay monks, this one had shaved his head entirely, although his hair had grown out into a shadowy fuzz.
Even if the Supernaturalists were caught on camera, their heads would only show up as static fuzz.
Meanwhile, Margaret stared as the stone trapezoid crackled and fuzzed with static.