pozzed

English

Etymology

Past participle of poz.

Adjective

pozzed (not comparable)

1. (LGBTQ slang) HIV positive.

   Synonym: poz

   • 2016 November 30, Joseph Channing, “An Undercover Look Inside the World of HIV Bug Chasers and Gift Givers”, in SF Weekly‎^[1]:

     “While you’re not pozzed, you keep guessing [about] it and there is still a chance you’re clean,” one man explained. “So you just wonder about it and keep yourself in some kind of fear. Once you’re poz, you’re sure about it and it all settles.”

2. (slang, derogatory) Culturally or ethnically diverse, or left-leaning and adhering to excessive political correctness.
   • 2016 December 12, Michael Malice, quoting Sam Hyde, “Trump Supporter Sam Hyde on Why Political Correctness Canceled His Adult Swim Show”, in Observer‎^[2], retrieved 2021-03-17:

     I’m going to be doing some publishing and my long-term goal is a video game that’s a sci-fi universe like Star Wars but non-pozzed, so there won’t be any communist messages like George Lucas had. It’ll be the opposite.

   • 2018 May 16, Martin Patriquin and others, “Canadian Far Right Extremism: The Racist Podcaster Who Started a Neo-Nazi Coffee Company to Fund White Nationalism”, in Vice‎^[3]:

     "“[88 Minutes] is unironically one of my favorite podcasts. Literally the only source for non-pozzed news from Canada,” wrote one Daily Stormer commentator.

   • 2021 February 5, Ben Sales, quoting Bart van Alphen, “Neuroscientist who wrote antisemitic and racist tweets dies by suicide”, in The Jerusalem Post‎^[4]:

     The email followed years of racist activity online. Van Alphen’s account on Gab features a slew of bigoted posts written between 2016 and 2019. The most recent, posted more than a year ago, reads “HBO’s Watchmen is just as pozzed you’d expect given its (((writer))). Whitey bad, whitey racist. N***o^[sic] good, n***o^[sic] noble.”

3. (by extension) To be ruined beyond redemption.