jazz

noun

1. 1

   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!

   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.

2. 2

   figurativeEnergy, 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. 3

   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.

   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.

4. 4

   Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.

   That show was the jazz!

   This risotto is simply the jazz.

5. 5

   Nonsense.

   Stop talking jazz.

6. 6

   slangSemen, 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.

7. 7

   A red-skinned variety of eating apple.

verb

1. 1

   slangTo destroy; to ruin.

   You’ve gone and jazzed it now!

2. 2

   To play (jazz music).

3. 3

   To dance to the tunes of jazz music.

4. 4

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

5. 5

   slangTo complicate.

   Don’t jazz it too much!

6. 6

   datedTo have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.

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

7. 7

   slangTo 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.’

8. 8

   slangTo distract or pester.

   Stop jazzing me!

9. 9

   slangTo 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.

Forms

plural

jazzes

past tense

jazzed

past participle

jazzed

present participle

jazzing

third person singular

jazzes