{ bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195453', size: [320, 50] }}, pbjsCfg.consentManagement = { iasLog("criterion : cdo_dc = english"); pbjsCfg = { { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195467', size: [320, 50] }}, Photographer. { bidder: 'pubmatic', params: { publisherId: '158679', adSlot: 'cdo_topslot' }}]}, The Merriam Webster dictionary includes the following in its definition of “spaz”: Etymology: by shortening & alteration from spastic var mapping_stickyslot = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([746, 0], []).addSize([0, 550], [[300, 50], [320, 50], [320, 100]]).addSize([0, 0], [[300, 50], [320, 50]]).build(); { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '539971068', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195455', size: [300, 250] }}, { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195451', size: [320, 50] }}, } { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '387233' }}, Who cares? type: "cookie", { bidder: 'pubmatic', params: { publisherId: '158679', adSlot: 'cdo_mpuslot1' }}]}, Related words & phrases spack spastic See also retard tard Verb spaz (third-person singular simple present , , 'increment': 0.01, { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '539971080', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '387232' }}, filterSettings: { { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, dfpSlots['topslot_b'] = googletag.defineSlot('/23202586/cdo_topslot', [[728, 90]], 'ad_topslot_b').defineSizeMapping(mapping_topslot_b).setTargeting('sri', '0').setTargeting('vp', 'top').setTargeting('hp', 'center').addService(googletag.pubads()); A "spaz" is simply a spastic person, whether the person is a > clutz, absent-minded, spacey, or looney. See more. { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '539971080', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, name: "pbjs-unifiedid", { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a9690ab01717182962182bb50ce0007', pos: 'cdo_stickyslot_mobile_flex' }}, { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '448836' }}, { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, var pbTabletSlots = [ 'increment': 0.05, { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '387232' }}, bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162050', zoneId: '776358', position: 'atf' }}, {code: 'ad_topslot_a', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_topslot', adUnitPath: '/23202586/cdo_topslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 250]] } }, { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195454', size: [300, 250] }}, (UK, slang, offensive) A mentally retarded person. { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195465', size: [300, 250] }}, He realised that while we are laughing we are also thinking. dfpSlots['topslot_a'] = googletag.defineSlot('/23202586/cdo_topslot', [], 'ad_topslot_a').defineSizeMapping(mapping_topslot_a).setTargeting('sri', '0').setTargeting('vp', 'top').setTargeting('hp', 'center').addService(googletag.pubads()); UK and Ireland. const customGranularity = { { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '446383' }}, { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, (short for "spastic") an offensive way ofâ¦. and from the definition of it’s longer form “spastic”: 1 a : of, relating to, characterized by, or affected with or as if with spasm [a spastic patient] b : characterized by hypertonic muscles [spastic cerebral palsy]. The Franchi SPAS-12 is a combat shotgun manufactured by Italian firearms company Franchi from 1979 to 2000. { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '541044957', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, }; { bidder: 'pubmatic', params: { publisherId: '158679', adSlot: 'cdo_mpuslot2' }}]}]; { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195467', size: [320, 100] }}, Many people report that spaz, meaning a clumsy or foolish person, was in common use in the mid- to late '50s here in the U.S. 2) An unusual display of random clumsiness (to throw a spaz) 3) An uncommon display of exceedingly random behaviour over a brief period of time (to spaz out ). { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195452', size: [300, 250] }}, { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, 'cap': true googletag.pubads().setTargeting("cdo_ptl", "entry-mcp"); Knitter. cmpApi: 'iab', Learn more. { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195455', size: [300, 50] }}, },{ I was hearing "spaz" in the early 1960s (in googletag.pubads().setTargeting("cdo_pt", "entry"); syncDelay: 3000 googletag.pubads().set("page_url", "https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/spaz"); { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195455', size: [300, 250] }}, userIds: [{ iasLog("criterion : cdo_ptl = entry-mcp"); 'max': 3, { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '448835' }}, if(success && (tcData.eventStatus === 'useractioncomplete' || tcData.eventStatus === 'tcloaded')) { { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a9690ab01717182962182bb50ce0007', pos: 'cdo_btmslot_mobile_flex' }}, { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195452', size: [336, 280] }}, { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '539971063', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, Too bad, I was mildly proud of that joke even though it’s probably not that politically correct here in the States either. 'min': 0, which certainly seems to support the theory, at least partially. > > Gary Williams My teenage niece uses the term "spaz { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '446382' }}, { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '446382' }}, { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_mpuslot' }}, { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195451', size: [300, 250] }}, Not having been there, I can't speak for the 60s, 70s, or several of the decades that followed, but here's how I see each of these words as of the present: "Spaz(z)"....is mildly insulting, even less so as a verb (I am in the US; it is apparently more offensive in the UK). 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The Scottish Council for the Care of Spastics was founded in 1946, and the Spastics Society, an English charity for people with cerebral palsy, was founded in 1951. storage: { The word "spaz" was common currency in UK playgrounds by the early 1970s, long before any Blue Peter stories. bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162036', zoneId: '776156', position: 'atf' }}, Spastic definition, pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by spasm, especially tonic spasm. { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a969411017171829a5c82bb4deb000b', pos: 'cdo_topslot_728x90' }}, { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654208' }}, ga('create', 'UA-31379-3',{cookieDomain:'dictionary.cambridge.org',siteSpeedSampleRate: 10}); { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195464', size: [160, 600] }}, "authorizationTimeout": 10000 bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162036', zoneId: '776156', position: 'atf' }}, { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_mpuslot' }}, { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '539971079', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_topslot' }}, {code: 'ad_contentslot_2', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_mpuslot', adUnitPath: '/23202586/cdo_mpuslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 250], [336, 280], [1, 1]] } }, var btScript = document.createElement('script'); iasLog("criterion : cdo_pc = dictionary"); } 'max': 36, Whereas the Oxford English Dictionary includes the following in its definition of “spastic”: adjective { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195455', size: [320, 100] }}, { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '539971069', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, iasLog("criterion : cdo_l = en"); { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_btmslot' }}, More than that, if someone of Khoi's stature in the community gives the impression that it's ok to do so, it just perpetuates the problem and prevents us from moving on to the place where we really should be. Learn more. 1 relating to or affected by muscle spasm In a discussion on the alt.usage.english newsgroup, Joe Fineman (Caltech class of '58) reproduced this journal entry he wrote in 1956, in a section on the language of Caltech students: { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '555366', size: [300, 50] }}, { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '539971069', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, dfpSlots['btmslot_a'] = googletag.defineSlot('/23202586/cdo_btmslot', [[300, 250], 'fluid'], 'ad_btmslot_a').defineSizeMapping(mapping_btmslot_a).setTargeting('sri', '0').setTargeting('vp', 'btm').setTargeting('hp', 'center').addService(googletag.pubads()); {code: 'ad_contentslot_1', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_mpuslot', adUnitPath: '/23202586/cdo_mpuslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 250], [336, 280], [1, 1]] } }, expires: 365 { bidder: 'pubmatic', params: { publisherId: '158679', adSlot: 'cdo_btmslot' }}]}, googletag.pubads().setTargeting("cdo_pc", "dictionary"); What are synonyms for chuck a spaz? pbjs.setConfig(pbjsCfg); { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_mpuslot' }}, { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654150' }}, googletag.pubads().setTargeting("cdo_ei", "spaz"); document.head.appendChild(btScript); "authorizationFallbackResponse": { { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654149' }}, I was shooting at foldable gongs. window.__tcfapi('addEventListener', 2, function(tcData, success) { { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195452', size: [300, 250] }}, { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654192' }}, googletag.pubads().setCategoryExclusion('mcp').setCategoryExclusion('resp').setCategoryExclusion('wprod'); { bidder: 'pubmatic', params: { publisherId: '158679', adSlot: 'cdo_btmslot' }}]}, However, the word began to be used as an insult and became a term of ⦠{ bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_Billboard' }}, {code: 'ad_topslot_b', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_topslot', adUnitPath: '/23202586/cdo_topslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[728, 90]] } }, (short for "spastic") an offensive way ofâ¦. { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '446383' }}, Who knows how the meaning may have broadened or changed > since then. { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '446383' }}, In the UK spaz is considered a derogatory term and it is offensive to people with disabilities. 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