A
jazz slang word for
Jesus Christ; short for
Nazarene. Due to
Lord Buckley; see
The Nazz.
Also the nickname of a character in Spider Robinson's Time Pressure (later, part II of Deathkiller). The Nazz is an acid casualty who looks like Jesus and comes up with all manner of neat ideas. In the story, he invented the mouse -- and passed the idea to some friends at Xerox PARC.