I agree with Ken, Mag and Wanda. I have always heard the term, "spaz" used
as a "put down". It began as "spastic" and was shortened to:"spaz".
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> Funny name for a wheelchair.
>
> When I was a teenager, "spaz" was the shortened form of "spastic."  We
> meant
> someone who moved clumsily or acted goofy.  If you said someone "spazzed
> out,"
> it meant they lost control of themselves.  As it caught on, one could be
> called a "spaz" for just about anything that wasn't "cool."   In
> retrospect, that
> was a rather negative term to use, but teenagers are rather negative
> beings,
> you know?
>
> Anybody know who was in charge of cool? :-)