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buzz

1  [buhz]
–noun
1. a low, vibrating, humming sound, as of bees, machinery, or people talking.
2. a rumor or report.
3. Informal. a phone call: When I find out, I'll give you a buzz.
4. Slang.
a. a feeling of intense enthusiasm, excitement, or exhilaration: I got a terrific buzz from those Pacific sunsets.
b. a feeling of slight intoxication.
–verb (used without object)
5. to make a low, vibrating, humming sound.
6. to speak or murmur with such a sound.
7. to be filled with the sound of buzzing or whispering: The room buzzed.
8. to whisper; gossip: Everyone is buzzing about the scandal.
9. to move busily from place to place.
10. Slang. to go; leave (usually fol. by off or along): I'll buzz along now. Tell him to buzz off and leave me alone.
–verb (used with object)
11. to make a buzzing sound with: The fly buzzed its wings.
12. to tell or spread (a rumor, gossip, etc.) secretively.
13. to signal or summon with a buzzer: He buzzed his secretary.
14. Informal. to make a phone call to.
15. Aeronautics.
a. to fly a plane very low over: to buzz a field.
b. to signal or greet (someone) by flying a plane low and slowing the motor spasmodically.
—Idiom
16. have or get a buzz on, Slang. to be slightly intoxicated: After a few beers they all had a buzz on.
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Origin:
1350–1400; ME busse; imit.

Related forms:
buzz⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
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Slang Dictionary
buzz

  1. n.
    a call on the telephone. (Usually with give. See also jingle.) : I'll give you a buzz tomorrow.
  2. tv.
    to call someone on the telephone. : Buzz me about noon.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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buzz along

  1. in.
    to depart. : Well, I must buzz along.
  2. in.
    to drive or move along rapidly. : “You were buzzing along at eighty-two miles per hour,” said the cop.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

buzz 
1495, echoic of bees and other insects. Meaning "a busy rumor" is attested from 1605. Aviation sense of "fly low and close" is 1941. Sense of "pleasant sense of intoxication" first recorded 1935. The game of counting off, with 7 or multiples of it replaced by buzz is attested from 1864. Buzzword first attested 1946. Buzz off (1914) originally meant "to ring off on the telephone." Buzzer "apparatus for making loud buzzing noises" is from 1870.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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