Woz

See also: woz, woź, wóź, wóz, and wōz

English

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Woz

  1. A nickname from the given name Warren.
    • 2016, Robert G. Barrett, The Boys from Binjiwunyawunya:
      Norton snapped his fingers. Monday's Warren's birthday. That's what I'll do. We'll get a couple of sheilas and I'll shout Woz out for dinner.

Etymology 2

Clipping of Wozniak.

Proper noun

Woz

  1. (informal) Nickname for a person with the surname Wozniak.
    1. (informal) American inventor Steve Wozniak (b. 1950).
      • 1998 September, Gary Wolf, “The World According to Woz”, in Wired‎[1], archived from the original on 10 August 2011:
        In 1973, Woz was working for Hewlett-Packard. His dial-a-joke service got more than 2,000 calls a day.
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