Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗An incompetent or physically uncoordinated person; a spazmo. · A hyperactive, erratically behaving person. · A tantrum or fit. · A person with spastic paralysis, spastic cerebral palsy or epilepsy
To have a tantrum or fit. · To malfunction, go on the fritz.
From spastic. Compare spasm /ˈspæzəm/.
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