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Sound of rapid vibration
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buzz
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a surge/buzz of excitement (= a sudden feeling of excitement ) ▪ As soon as he noticed her name on the list, a surge of excitement ran through him. ▪ There is a buzz of excitement inside the stadium. an insect buzzes ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., echoic of bees and other insects. Aviation sense of "fly low and close" is by 1941 (see buzz (n.)). Related: Buzzed ; buzzing . Buzz off (1914) originally meant "to ring off on the telephone," from the use of buzzers to signal a call or message ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Buzz was an A3 ( broadsheet ) British comic book magazine that ran from 20 January 1973 to 4 January 1975, when it merged with The Topper . Buzz ran for 103 Issues.
Usage examples of buzz.
In CIC, aerology, the coding room, men listened tensely to the crackling, buzzing speakers that would tell the story of the battle before it broke overhead.
Before the apathetic, confused militiamen could step up to the boy, the whole deck became a buzzing hive.
He was nearing the apiary, wading through tall grass and wildflowers, aware of their scent and of the faint buzz in the air.
About to reload, Clyde heard indignant buzzes from the directors near him and realized that the heroic bust represented old Henry Argyle, the presiding deity in these precincts.
That buzz that can only really be attained by being up on stage bawling into a microphone and working up a good old sweat.
I tried to assign Buzz a motive as I drove down the road to his house, but I was as bereft of inspiration as I was of cool air from the pisspoor air conditioner.
After the buzz started, Bex opened the lock and dragged the old man out.
Hank Bindle had offered up in his entire adult life-that Ian suddenly buzzed in.
An older black man limped in with a clean-shaven youth in a military buzz cut.
Rather than being filled with worries about her surroundings, her mind buzzed with thoughts of the often puzzling, sometimes frustrating, yet always fascinating Blu Cahill.
McWatt, and he was not even safe with McWatt, who loved flying too much and went buzzing boldly inches off the ground with Yossarian in the nose on the way back from the training flight to break in the new bombardier in the whole replacement crew Colonel Cathcart had obtained after Orr was lost.
Quickly Newt buzzed away, and Yaz popped out of the hatch to follow him.
Newt buzzed into the air, his gossamer wings invisible with the speed of their flapping.
Newt, appearing and disappearing rapidly in his agitation, buzzed around the fissure.
Newt buzzed into the air and sank his teeth into the tail-feathers of one of the creatures, but the monster twisted and raked at him with its claws.