Infuzer: "What is The Fuzz? I've never heard the expression before?"
lol.. it is an old term Infuzer but I didnt think it was quite that old.
With most things, its likely that the term is somewhat older than we are led to believe.
The Fuzz = The Police. I'mcertain it originated in the USA and was in common usage in the 60s and 70s, at least it was used a lot on TV.... it conjures up images of the hip 70s TV cop show, 'the Mod Squad'.
According to TV, hippies called police 'the Fuzz' usually just before and after they reeked chaos on the world. It also helped to be black drug addict before you could say, 'The Fuzz'. Like I said, thats according to 'the Mod Squad' and other showsof the same ilk.
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Johnsy: I have copied this from a site found on Google:
Dear Word Detective: Please, what is the origin of "fuzz" (in the sense of "police")?
That's a good question, but before we begin I have a question of my own. Where in the world are you hearing people refer to the police as "fuzz"? I know it's supposed to be perennial youth (or as we say in New York, "yout") slang for cops, but I have never heard a real person use it, unless you want to count Jack Webb on the old "Dragnet." When I was growing up in the 1960's, we called police officers many things, but mostly we just called them "cops" and we never, ever, called them "the fuzz." As a matter of fact, anybody calling the cops "the fuzz" would have been instantly suspected of being a cop. It would have been a faux pas right up there with ironing your blue jeans.
Then again, "fuzz" apparently was genuine slang among drug users and other underworld types in the 1930's, since it is listed in several glossaries of criminal slang compiled at that time. Unfortunately, no one, even back then, has ever been able to pin down exactly where "fuzz" came from. One hypothesis in American Tramp and Underworld Slang, published in 1931, was that "fuzz" was derived from "fuss," meaning that the cops were "fussy" or "hard to please." This theory seems a bit overly genteel.
Other theories aren't much better. Etymologist Eric Partridge ventured that "fuzz" might have been rooted in the beards of early police officers, or perhaps in the idea of "mold" as a derogatory metaphor for the police. Yet another theory was that "fuzz" arose as a slurred pronunciation of the warning "Feds!" (Federal narcotics agents). None of these theories seems very likely.
My own hunch is that "fuzz" 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?
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cause no one I have ever known in my life has heard of such a thing, and believe me these are people were born with a led foot, way worse than me or my record!!!!!!!!!!!
