Firstly, Evan Morris, the word ‘fuzz’ is commonly used to describe the police round these parts (Northern UK) so Nyah.
There is a kind of chicken/egg problem with the origin theory I heard: It apparently derives from the phrase “Caught by the Fuzz”, literally meaning to be trapped by one’s… umm… fuzzier parts… but being adapted to mean being ensnared in any highly undesirably situation - such as being arrested. Thus the police-descriptive term ‘Fuzz’ arose.
Of course, it could easily have transpired the other way round, with the word first being used to describe the cops.
Just so you know, even if you’d gotten the URL right the first time, it still wouldn’t have worked… Auto-parsed URLs don’t work in the subject line, only in the body.
In the US, we do have an expression analogous to the one you’re describing: If one has a person by the “short and curlies”, that person is caught in the same way you’re describing. “Fuzz” is not a particularly common term for said hair, however, except in the construction “fuzzy peach” (referring, if it’s not obvious, to specifically female parts). But of course, most of the people caught by the police are not women.
