jazz

Plural: jazzes

Noun

• empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
  • "don't give me any of that jazz"
• a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
• a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands
• A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.
• Energy, excitement, excitability.
• The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s).
• Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
• Nonsense.
• Semen, jizz.
• A red-skinned variety of eating apple.

Verb

Verb Forms: jazzed, jazzing, jazzes

• To enliven, brighten, or make more exciting.
• play something in the style of jazz
• have sexual intercourse with
• To destroy; to ruin.
• To play (jazz music).
• To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
• To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting.
• To complicate.
• To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.
• To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.
• To distract or pester.
• To ejaculate.

Examples

• and all that jazz
• Don’t jazz it too much!
• I needed a good word to JAZZ up my dull Words With Friends game, so I played ’QUARTZ’.
• I'm just going down to the shops and jazz.
• Stop jazzing me!
• Stop talking jazz.
• That show was the jazz!
• This risotto is simply the jazz.
• What is all this jazz lying around?
• You’ve gone and jazzed it now!

Synonyms

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