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Where did "the fuzz" come from
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Posted 11 months ago I dont know if this one was posted or not yet, but where did the term "fuzz" come from? |
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| Posted 11 months ago I don't know, maybe it has to do with the traditional policeman's crew-cut/buzz-cut hairstlyre, it looks kinda of fuzzy? -or maybe from the "having fuzz on you"? |
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| Posted 11 months ago There are several theories about the origin of "fuzz":
The term is not related to Fuzzy Wuzzy who wuz a bear. (You didn't ask, but the term "bear" for police refers to the Smokey the Bear hat commonly worn by state troopers.) Evan Morris suggests the word "arose as a term of contempt for police based on the use of 'fuzz' or 'fuzzy' in other items of derogatory criminal slang of the period. To be 'fuzzy' was to be unmanly, incompetent and soft. How better to insult the police, after all, than to mock them as ineffectual?" That explanation seems as good as any, and better than most In honor of 58,044 brothers who never returned from Viet Nam
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| Posted 11 months ago Okay, they make sense. I've asked other guys as well and we all get the same blank stares. |
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| Posted 8 months ago I'n not sure about England or 1930 Gangster slang, but the current adaptation in most of the US mostly stems from this...............
The Fuzz is short for " Cheese it , It's the Fuzz" a saying used by drugged up hippees in the 60's.
That is an adaptation of "Cheese it, It's the Cops" verbage used in 1950's Hollywood movies like "West Side Story"
The fuzz is a word used when your so frikkin high that when the cops come to bust your ass that u call them the fuzz because the crack and chron are blurring your vision.
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| Posted 3 months ago Got to agree with KRG123 |
