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Jazz

//d͡ʒæz// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A diminutive of the male given name Jasper.

    "Jasper's teeth were set; he didn't move. "Jazz, this isn't anything you've seen before," Alice said quietly. "Trust me.""

  2. 2
    A diminutive of the male given name James.

    "His real name was James, but those who knew him seemed never to call him that. He was Jamesy, or more often Jazz."

  3. 3
    A diminutive of the female given name Jasmine.

    ""He calls you Jazzikins." He would. He had. Couldn't call me Jazz or Jasmine the way everyone else did."

Noun
  1. 1
    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. uncountable, usually

    "You dare to bring your jazz songs into my house!"

  2. 2
    a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands wordnet
  3. 3
    Energy, excitement, excitability. figuratively, uncountable, usually

    "“You want something zippy there. Something with a bit of jazz to it!”"

  4. 4
    a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles wordnet
  5. 5
    The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s). uncountable, usually

    "and all that jazz"

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  1. 6
    empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk wordnet
  2. 7
    Something of excellent quality, the genuine article. uncountable, usually

    "That show was the jazz!"

  3. 8
    Nonsense. uncountable, usually

    "Stop talking jazz."

  4. 9
    Semen, jizz. slang, uncountable, usually

    "Suddenly, Bobby oozed his jazz into Gene's throat."

  5. 10
    A red-skinned variety of eating apple. uncountable, usually
Verb
  1. 1
    To destroy; to ruin. slang

    "You’ve gone and jazzed it now!"

  2. 2
    have sexual intercourse with wordnet
  3. 3
    To play (jazz music).
  4. 4
    play something in the style of jazz wordnet
  5. 5
    To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
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  1. 6
    To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting.
  2. 7
    To complicate. slang

    "Don’t jazz it too much!"

  3. 8
    To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself. US, dated, intransitive, slang

    "‘Jazzing?’ Temple whispered […]. ‘Yes, putty-face!’ the woman said. ‘How do you suppose I paid that lawyer?’"

  4. 9
    To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around. intransitive, slang

    "I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a Billingsgate fishwoman blush!"

  5. 10
    To distract or pester. slang, transitive

    "Stop jazzing me!"

  6. 11
    To ejaculate. slang

    "Twenty-four black men jazzed madly as trumpets exploded her eardrums in tom-tom time. Ebony orgasm flooded her with creme."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Unknown. First attested around 1912 in a discussion of baseball; attested in reference to music around 1915. Numerous references suggest that the term may be connected to jasm and jism.

Etymology 2

Unknown. First attested around 1912 in a discussion of baseball; attested in reference to music around 1915. Numerous references suggest that the term may be connected to jasm and jism.

Etymology 3

A fanciful spelling variant of Jaz and Jas.

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