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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.
EXPANDto move busily from place to place.
10.
COLLAPSESlang. to go; leave (usually followed by off or along): I'll buzz along now. Tell him to buzz off and leave me alone.
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verb (used with object)
Idiom11.
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.
16.
have/get a buzz on, Slang. to be slightly intoxicated: After a few beers they all had a buzz on.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English busse; imitative
1350–1400; Middle English busse; imitative
Related forms
buzz·ing·ly, adverb
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Word Origin & History
buzz
late 15c., echoic of bees and other insects. Aviation sense of "fly low and close" is 1941. Noun meaning "a busy rumor" is attested from c.1600; that of "humming sound" is from 1640s. Meaning "pleasant sense of intoxication" first recorded 1935. The game of counting off, with 7 or multiples of it replaced
EXPANDby buzz is attested from 1864. Buzz off (1914) originally meant "to ring off on the telephone."
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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