Green’s Dictionary of Slang

buzzing adj.

[buzz v.1 ]

1. exciting, active.

[US]Ade 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.
[US]Kerouac On The Road (1972) 77: He drove me into buzzing Fresno and let me off by the south side.
[US](con. 1943) A. Myrer Big War 60: ‘What’s with the beat, sugar?’ ‘It’s buzzin’, cousin.’.
[UK]D. Powis Signs of Crime 176: Buzzing [...] Circulating, as in a crowded public house.
[US]M. McAlary Crack War (1991) 123: I came in [...] around midnight. The place was buzzing.
[UK]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 .

[US]L. Durst Jives of Dr. Hepcat (1989) 1: Jimson, you can believe that cat’s wings are not clipped because he is naturally buzzing cuzin.
[UK]Eve. Standard Mag. 23 Feb. 42: We were buzzing.
[UK](con. 1990s) N. ‘Razor’ Smith 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]J.-P. Jordan Joys of War 25: I was buzzing with the news of getting deployed .

3. experiencing a drug pleasurably.

[US]Altman & Ziporyn 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.
[UK] in R. Graef Living Dangerously 189: When I went to court I was buzzing (stoned).
[Ire]P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] I went back to work that night still buzzing [i.e. from LSD].
[UK]N. Palmer ‘Vegan Reich’ in Home Suspect Device 21: She was still buzzing from last night.
[UK]N. Griffiths Grits 263: — Are yer avin a good time by the wey? — Fuckin buzzin.
[US]J. Stahl Bad Sex on Speed 135: The three of us went buzzing out to watch the square-johns come to test their eyes on us.
[UK]67 ‘Live Corn’ 🎵 M rolled up and he’s buzzing.

4. (US campus) drunk.

[US]Eble Campus Sl. Nov.