jazz
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
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.
Inflected forms:
form: jazzes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jaz
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: jas
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: jass
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: jasz
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: jazzes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jazzing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jazzed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jazzed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: jaz
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
form: jas
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
form: jass
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
form: jasz
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: 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!
You see, the kids, they listen to the rap music which gives them the brain damage. With their hippin', and the hoppin', and the bippin', and the boppin', so they don't know what the jazz…is all about! You see, jazz is like the Jello Pudding Pop—no, actually, it's more like Kodak film—no, actually, jazz is like the New Coke: it'll be around forever, heh heh.
gloss: Energy, excitement, excitability.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: “You want something zippy there. Something with a bit of jazz to it!”
He loves the risk. The danger. He loves the jazz.
gloss: The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: and all that jazz
What is all this jazz lying around?
I'm just going down to the shops and jazz.
Dad, I want to be a jock. All a jock needs is some hep patter and a real gone image. Now, they just don't teach that jazz in college.
gloss: Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: That show was the jazz!
This risotto is simply the jazz.
gloss: Nonsense.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Stop talking jazz.
gloss: Semen, jizz.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
usually
examples: 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.
gloss: A red-skinned variety of eating apple.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: To destroy; to ruin.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: You’ve gone and jazzed it now!
gloss: To play (jazz music).
pos: verb
gloss: To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
pos: verb
gloss: To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting.
pos: verb
gloss: To complicate.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: Don’t jazz it too much!
gloss: To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.
pos: verb
tags: US
dated
intransitive
slang
examples: ‘Jazzing?’ Temple whispered […]. ‘Yes, putty-face!’ the woman said. ‘How do you suppose I paid that lawyer?’
gloss: To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: 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!
"In the old days, heaps of unmarried women were companions, and let me tell you, my dear girl, they had a much better time than they have now, with all this jazzing and short skirts and pretending to have careers. The modern girl hasn't a scrap of decent feeling or sentiment about her. Money--money and notoriety, that's all she's after. That's what we fought the war for--and that's what we've come back to!" "George, do keep to the point. Miss Dorland doesn't jazz--"
‘Well, if you're going to jazz about the way you do, I suppose you'll need rouge at your age.’
gloss: To distract or pester.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Stop jazzing me!
gloss: To ejaculate.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: 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.
Synonyms: ravage
jam
vitalise
confuscate
turn tricks
bug
Derived words: acid jazz
Afro-Cuban jazz
all that jazz
bluegrass jazz
bluegrass-jazz
cool jazz
electrojazz
Ethio-jazz
free jazz
good enough for jazz
gypsy jazz
hot jazz
jazz around
jazz band
jazzbo
jazz bow
jazz box
jazz cabbage
jazz cigarette
jazzcore
jazz dance
jazzdom
jazz dot
jazzen
jazzer
jazzerati
jazzercise
jazzetry
jazzfest
jazz funeral
jazz-funk
jazz fusion
jazz garter
jazz hands
jazzhead
jazz-hop
jazzical
jazzification
jazzify
jazzish
jazzist
jazzistic
jazz journalism
jazzless
jazz-like
jazz mag
jazz-mugham
jazz mugham
jazznik
jazzophile
jazzophone
jazz pants
jazzperson
jazz player
jazz poet
jazz poetry
jazz rap
jazz-rock
jazz square
jazzstep
jazzster
jazz up
jazzwoman
jazzy
modal jazz
nonjazz
nu-jazz
nu jazz
outjazz
progressive jazz
punk jazz
punk-jazz
smooth jazz
spiritual jazz
straight-ahead jazz
traditional jazz
trad jazz
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