buzz
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Is buzz a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
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What is the meaning of buzz?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (informal) A rush or feeling of energy or excitement; a feeling of slight intoxication.Examples: "Still feeling the buzz from the coffee, he pushed through the last of the homework."countableinformaluncountable
2. (informal) A telephone call or e-mail.Examples: "Now, don't waste time, give us a buzz -- quick! 825-4703 or 265-7881."countableinformaluncountable
3. (informal) Major topic of conversation; widespread rumor; information spread behind the scenes.Examples: "Mr. Hall? The buzz on Christian is that his parents have joint custody, so he'll be spending one semester in Chicago and one semester here."; "I wasn't performing with Pimp and Smoove that much no more, but I had a solo deal with Ruthless Rap and a brand new mixtape that was creating a big buzz."; "In Detroit, the buzz is that he's too nice a guy, unwilling to impose draconian job cuts at the risk of angering the UAW."countableinformaluncountable
4. (uncountable) Synonym of fizz-buzz (“counting game”).Synonyms: fizz-buzzuncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings.Examples: "Ah! the singing, fatal arrow, / Like a wasp it buzzed, and stung him [a roebuck]!"; "So that now the universe has escaped from the pin which was pushed through it, like an impaled fly vainly buzzing: now that the multiple universe flies its own complicated course quite free, and hasn't got any hub, we can hope also to escape."intransitive
2. (intransitive) To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings.Examples: "However these disturbers of our peace / Buzz in the people's ears."broadlyintransitive
3. (intransitive) To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings.Examples: "But I tell you this has set all London buzzing. The old man is where he likes to be, with a pin-point limelight right on his hairy old head."intransitive
4. (intransitive) To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings.Examples: "A fly was buzzing past me."; "The flies, lethargic with the autumn, were beginning to buzz into the room."intransitive
5. (colloquial) To show a high level of activity and haste, energization or excitement, to be busy as a bee in one’s actions but perhaps mentally charged.colloquial
6. (transitive) To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an undertone; to spread, as a report, by whispers or secretly.Examples: "I will buzz abroad such prophecies / That Edward shall be fearful of his life."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary