Jazzhead

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A jazz music enthusiast. slang

    "He speaks to an audience definable not by its size nor even by its color but by its intellectual jazzhead zeal, and if he sometimes appears to be speaking only to himself, so be it; few people I know have the fervor for anything to match Mackey’s for jazz."

Example

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"He speaks to an audience definable not by its size nor even by its color but by its intellectual jazzhead zeal, and if he sometimes appears to be speaking only to himself, so be it; few people I know have the fervor for anything to match Mackey’s for jazz."

Etymology

From jazz + -head.

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