buzzing adj.
1. exciting, active.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Hand-made Fables 244: Once a Young Man employed in the remote corner of a buzzing Beehive alighted from the Horse Car and hurried to his Suburban Dove-Cote. | |
| On The Road (1972) 77: He drove me into buzzing Fresno and let me off by the south side. | |
| (con. 1943) Big War 60: ‘What’s with the beat, sugar?’ ‘It’s buzzin’, cousin.’. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Signs of Crime 176: Buzzing [...] Circulating, as in a crowded public house. | |
| Crack War (1991) 123: I came in [...] around midnight. The place was buzzing. | |
| Indep. Rev. 28 Mar. 1: Not everyone would agree with Mr McClurg-Welland’s view of ‘buzzing’ Staines. |
2. pleasurably stimulated (but without drugs), thus assonant ext. buzzin cuzin .
| Jives of Dr. Hepcat (1989) 1: Jimson, you can believe that cat’s wings are not clipped because he is naturally buzzing cuzin. | |
| Eve. Standard Mag. 23 Feb. 42: We were buzzing. | |
| (con. 1990s) A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 439: I was buzzing. I still say there is nothing like an armed robbery for getting absolutely high. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Joys of War 25: I was buzzing with the news of getting deployed . |
3. experiencing a drug pleasurably.
| Born to Raise Hell in Lingeman (1969) n.p.: Before I had even got the needle out I could feel, you know, feel – Zzzoommm – a buzzing all over me. | |
| in Living Dangerously 189: When I went to court I was buzzing (stoned). | |
| The Joy (2015) [ebook] I went back to work that night still buzzing [i.e. from LSD]. | |
| ‘Vegan Reich’ in Home Suspect Device 21: She was still buzzing from last night. | |
| Grits 263: — Are yer avin a good time by the wey? — Fuckin buzzin. | |
| Bad Sex on Speed 135: The three of us went buzzing out to watch the square-johns come to test their eyes on us. | |
| ‘Live Corn’ 🎵 M rolled up and he’s buzzing. |
4. (US campus) drunk.
| Campus Sl. Nov. |