nazz
n.— «The Nazz was the kind of a cat that come on so cool and so groovy and so with-it that when he laid it down…WA-BOM!!» —“The Nazz” by Richard “Lord” Buckley His Royal Hipness Sept. 28, 1993. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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