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noun 
  1. A person affected by spastic paralysis or spastic cerebral palsy.
  2. (context, slang, pejorative) A clumsy person; see spaz, spazz.
  3. (context, slang, pejorative) One who is hyperactive.
Translations: 
    adjective 
    1. (pathology) Of, related to, or affected by spasm.
    2. (pathology) Of or related to spastic paralysis.
    3. (context, slang, pejorative) clumsy, Clumsy.
    4. (context, slang, pejorative) hyperactive, Hyperactive, excited, and random manner.
    Translations: 
      Etymology: (term, spasticus) < spastikos "to draw". Confer French (term, spastique, lang=fr) and see also (term, spasm). Noun derived from the adjective.

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