wiz

Someone who is very good at a particular subject or activity.

• My brother is a computer wiz.
• She’s a wiz at solving puzzles.
• The team hired a financial wiz to manage its budget.

How to use it: a wiz at something (She’s a wiz at fixing phones.)

Similar words: expert, whiz, wizard, genius

Common phrases: computer wiz, maths wiz, wiz at something

An administrator who manages an online text-based adventure game and has special powers within it.

• Ask a wiz for help.
• The wiz removed a player who broke the rules.
• Only wizzes can use those server commands.

Similar words: wizard, administrator

Common phrases: MUD wiz, wiz privileges, wiz commands

To finish an online text-based game’s quest and gain administrator status.

• She hopes to wiz soon.
• He wizzed after completing the final quest.
• Players who wiz gain new powers in the dungeon.

Common phrases: wiz after something, wiz in something