• Italian: brusio
• Japanese: ブーン (boon)
• Russian: жужжание

• trreq Hebrew

Verb

1. To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. Hence: To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice.
2. To sound forth by buzzing.
3. To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an under tone; to spread, as report, by whispers, or secretly.
4. To talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice.
5. In the context of "aviation": To fly very low over an airport or other location.

Translations

to make a low, humming or sibilant sound

• Dutch: zoemen
• German: summen, brummen, surren
• Russian: жужжать (žužžát’)

to sound forth by buzzing

to communicate, as tales, in an under tone

to talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice

Aviation: To fly very low over an airport or other location

Derived terms

• buzzword

Buzz may refer to:

In media:

• Buzz (comic), a British comic that ran in the 1970s
• Buzz (TV series), a Canadian comedy television series
• Buzz (film), a 1998 Israeli film by Eli Cohen
• Buzz (album), a 2000 album by British pop group, Steps
• Buzz (Guardian album), a 1995 album from Christian rock band, Guardian
• Buzz (band), a Korean pop/punk/ballad band
• Buzz Out Loud, a podcast produced by CNET starring Molly Wood and Tom Merritt
• Da Buzz, a Swedish pop music group
• Buzz!, a series of quiz video games
• Buzz (Keller Williams album), a 1996 album by Keller Williams.
• Buzz (Christian magazine), a British Christian magazine founded in the 1970s.

In technology:

• Jeskola Buzz, a modular software music studio environment
• Aeroelasticity or Flutter
• Yahoo! Buzz, a community launched by Yahoo! that publishes user posted news stories

Other:

• Buzz (airline), a discount airline formerly operating in Europe
• Buzz cut, American name for a type of haircut where the hair is sheared very closely to the scalp
• Buzz number, letter and number combination applied to U.S. Air Force aircraft after World War II
• Bizz buzz, a group word game
• Salt Lake Buzz, former name of the Salt Lake Bees minor league baseball team

Buzz may also be:

• A term used in word of mouth marketing
• Experiencing intoxication from drugs

People with the name Buzz:

• Buzz Aldrin (born 1930), American pilot and astronaut, second person to set foot on the Moon
• George Beurling (1921–1948), Canadian World War II fighter pilot nicknamed "Buzz"
• Buzz Hargrove (born 1944), National President of the Canadian Auto Workers trade union
• Buzz Kilman, Chicago radio personality.
• Buzz Osborne (born 1964), guitarist/vocalist/songwriter, founding member of The Melvins
• J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner (born 1967), American forensic psychologist and journalist
• Buzz, a host of the American children's television series ZOOM

Fictional characters with the name Buzz:

• Buzz (mascot), mascot of the Georgia Institute of Technology
• Buzz Lightyear, from the Toy Story animated movies
• Buzzbee, official mascot of the breakfast cereal Honey Nut Cheerios
• Buzz, from the Donkey Kong video game series
• Buzz Buzz, from the Super Nintendo game EarthBound
• Buzz, a Neopet from an online virtual pet site
• Buzz McCallister, from the Home Alone movie trilogy
• Buzz Buzzard,nemesis of Woody Woodpecker

See also:

• The Buzz
• Bzzz!, a relationship TV game show that aired from 1996-1998
• buzzkill

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