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"You dare to bring your jazz songs into my house!"
"“You want something zippy there. Something with a bit of jazz to it!”"
"and all that jazz"
"That show was the jazz!"
"Stop talking jazz."
"Suddenly, Bobby oozed his jazz into Gene's throat."
"You’ve gone and jazzed it now!"
"Don’t jazz it too much!"
"‘Jazzing?’ Temple whispered […]. ‘Yes, putty-face!’ the woman said. ‘How do you suppose I paid that lawyer?’"
"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!"
"Stop jazzing me!"
"Twenty-four black men jazzed madly as trumpets exploded her eardrums in tom-tom time. Ebony orgasm flooded her with creme."
"Jasper's teeth were set; he didn't move. "Jazz, this isn't anything you've seen before," Alice said quietly. "Trust me.""
"His real name was James, but those who knew him seemed never to call him that. He was Jamesy, or more often Jazz."
""He calls you Jazzikins." He would. He had. Couldn't call me Jazz or Jasmine the way everyone else did."
"As is often the case with educated people, he likes classical music better than jazz."
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.
Common synonyms include: acid rock, annoy, avant-garde jazz, ballroom music, baloney, bang.
As is often the case with educated people, he likes classical music better than jazz.
Pronounced /d͡ʒæz/.
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.
A fanciful spelling variant of Jaz and Jas.