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jazz

noun
/d͡ʒæz/

Etymology

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.

Definitions

  1. A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the…

    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.

    • You dare to bring your jazz songs into my house!
    • Of later composers of Jewish musical plays we mention Joseph Rumshinksy (born in Wilna in 1879), who gained popularity in New York. His music is based upon folk motives and influenced by "Jazz" rhythms and melodic curves
    • You all look out now, here I come, everybody step aside, I’m gonna show you where from! I'm gonna blow in this horn and make you know that jazz is the king and let it be so!

  2. Energy, excitement, excitability.

    • “You want something zippy there. Something with a bit of jazz to it!”
    • He loves the risk. The danger. He loves the jazz.

  3. The substance or makeup of a thing

    The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s).

    • and all that jazz
    • What is all this jazz lying around?
    • I'm just going down to the shops and jazz.
  4. ›+ 16 more definitions

    1. Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.

      • That show was the jazz!
      • This risotto is simply the jazz.

    2. Nonsense.

      • Stop talking jazz.

    3. Semen, jizz.

      • Suddenly, Bobby oozed his jazz into Gene's throat.
      • […] making Glenn feel as though he could never stop shooting his jazz wildly up inside the man's brawny body!
      • As he clung to the legs of his captor, he splayed his own out to the side, baring his groin and genitals to the eyes of all just as his jazz began to spurt out onto the stage.

    4. A red-skinned variety of eating apple.

    5. To destroy

      To destroy; to ruin.

      • You’ve gone and jazzed it now!

    6. To play (jazz music).

    7. To dance to the tunes of jazz music.

    8. To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting.

    9. To complicate.

      • Don’t jazz it too much!

    10. To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.

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

    11. To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner

      To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.

      • 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!
      • ‘Well, if you're going to jazz about the way you do, I suppose you'll need rouge at your age.’

    12. To distract or pester.

      • Stop jazzing me!

    13. To ejaculate.

      • Twenty-four black men jazzed madly as trumpets exploded her eardrums in tom-tom time. Ebony orgasm flooded her with creme.
      • The thrill of the rimming soon made this guy beg for me to stop before he jazzed his nuts.
      • I reached around and began jacking off Marshall's prick as I was jazzing his ass.

    14. 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."

    15. 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.

    16. 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.

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Derived

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA