spazzing
spaz around
To waste time behaving in a foolish, silly, or frenetic manner. Said especially of or by children. "Spaz" is short for "spastic" and may be considered offensive due to that originally having been a derogatory term for someone with spastic paralysis or cerebral palsy. My friends and I just got really hyper eating a bunch of candy and spent the rest of the sleepover spazzing around. Let's go hang out up in my room. My little brothers won't be spazzing around up there.
See also: around, spaz
spaz down
1. To become calm, composed, or in control; to stop spazzing out. "Spaz" is short for "spastic" and may be considered offensive due to that originally having been a derogatory term for someone with spastic paralysis or cerebral palsy. Mom, you need to get a grip and spaz down. Has your brother spazzed down enough to tell us what happened?
2. To cause someone become relaxed, composed, or in control; to calm someone down. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "spaz" and "down." Potentially offensive. I offered him a cigarette and a stiff drink to help spaz him down. You need to spaz down your girlfriend, or she'll end up drawing the attention of the police.
See also: down, spaz
spaz out
1. To behave in a foolish, silly, or frenetic manner. Said especially of or by children. "Spaz" is short for "spastic" and may be considered offensive due to that originally having been a derogatory term for someone with spastic paralysis or cerebral palsy. My friends and I just got really hyper eating a bunch of candy and spent the rest of the sleepover spazzing out. Tom and I were trying to study, but my little brothers kept spazzing out around us in the living room.
2. To behave in an erratic, unpredictable, and uncontrollable manner. Potentially offensive. I must have a virus or something, because my computer keeps spazzing out on me! The washing machine suddenly started spazzing out, then completely shut down.
See also: out, spaz
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
spaz around
Sl. to waste time; to mess around. You kids are always spazzing around. Why don't you do something useful? We're just spazzing around. Leave us alone.
See also: around, spaz
spaz down
Sl. to relax. spaz down, man! Chill out! We tried to get the crowd to spaz down, but they were very excited.
See also: down, spaz
spaz out
1. si to overreact to something; to become overly excited about something. I knew you would spaz out! But my grades are not that bad! Come on, don't spaz out!
2. Sl. an emotional display. (Usually spaz-out.) There's no need for a spaz-out! she threw a hell of a spaz-out.
See also: out, spaz
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
spaz around
in. to waste time; to mess around. You kids are always spazzing around. Why don’t you get a job?
See also: around, spaz
spaz down
in. to relax. We tried to get the crowd to spaz down, but they were very excited.
See also: down, spaz
spaz out
1. in. to overreact to something; to become overly excited about something. I knew you would spaz out! It’s not that bad!
2. n. an emotional display. (Usually spaz-out.) She threw a hell of a spaz-out.
See also: out, spaz
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- spaz around
- spaz out
- spaz down
- spazzes
- spa
- spaz
- have a spaz
- play the heavy
- play the heavy, to
- goofball