fuzz /fʌz/ BrE AmE noun
[ Date: 1600-1700 ; Origin: Probably from fuzzy ]
1 . [singular, uncountable] thin soft hair or a substance like hair that covers something:
When Jack was born he had a fuzz of black hair on his head.
2 . [uncountable] American English a small amount of soft material that has come from clothing etc SYN fluff
3 . the fuzz informal an insulting way of talking to or about the police, used especially in the 1960s and 1970s