buzzsaw noun 5verb 3forms 3 noun5 •A circular saw.Agriculture Secretary Edward T. Schafer is preparing to walk into a buzzsaw of criticism over American biofuels policy when he meets with world leaders to discuss the global food crisis next week. — 2008 •(slang) A violently destructive attack.The changes ran into a buzzsaw of Congressional criticism. — 1983 •One who attacks violently and/or mindlessly.So he keeps away from the intellectual buzzsaws; and, as both philology and philosophy grow ever more and more technical, the gap between them, if anything, widens. — 1935 •(slang) Someone or something that makes a loud, harsh, grinding or rasping noise, like that of a circular saw.No danger of these buzzsaws waking up, it was enough to make you wish for impaired hearing. — 1979 •(slang) The MG 42 general-purpose machine gun.Cade braced its stock against his shoulder, sighted the moving shadows in the woods, and let the buzz saw chew into them. — 2020 verb3 •To cut with a circular saw. •(informal) To produce a loud, harsh noise like that of a circular saw.A loud screeching sound buzzsaws the eerie silence of the day. — 2014 •(informal) To spin rapidly like the blades of a circular saw.The 7.62 tumblers would buzzsaw through the flimsy protection offered by the float. — 1990 formsbuzzsawed · buzzsawing · buzzsaws
