1. Filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
   "peach fuzz";
   - hair, tomentum
    
2. A hazy or indistinct representation
   "he tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz";
   - blur
    
3. The first beard of an adolescent boy
   "The teenager was proud of the fuzz growing on his chin"
    
4. [informal] The force of policemen and officers
   "the fuzz came looking for him";
   - police, police force, constabulary, law, boys in blue [informal], Bill [Brit, informal], Old Bill [Brit, informal], polis [UK, dialect, informal], the fuzz [informal]

1. Make fuzzy
   "The old TV screen began to fuzz the image"

Derived forms: fuzzed, fuzzing, fuzzes

Type of: beard, enation, face fungus [informal], force, internal representation, law enforcement agency, mental representation, personnel, plant process, representation, whiskers

Encyclopedia: Fuzz