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.
Meaning & usage
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).
and all that jazz
What is all this jazz lying around?
Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
That show was the jazz!
This risotto is simply the jazz.
Nonsense.
Stop talking jazz.
Semen, jizz.
A red-skinned variety of eating apple.
Where this word comes from
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.
To destroy; to ruin.
You’ve gone and jazzed it now!
To play (jazz music).
To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting.
To complicate.
Don’t jazz it too much!
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.
Stop jazzing me!
To ejaculate.
Where this word comes from
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.
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