jazz

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   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.uncountableusually

   • 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
2. 2

   Energy, excitement, excitability.figurativelyuncountableusually

   • “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).uncountableusually

   • and all that jazz
   • What is all this jazz lying around?
4. 4

   Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.uncountableusually

   • That show was the jazz!
   • This risotto is simply the jazz.
5. 5

   Nonsense.uncountableusually

   • Stop talking jazz.
6. 6

   Semen, jizz.slanguncountableusually

   • 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!
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   A red-skinned variety of eating apple.uncountableusually

1. 1

   To destroy; to ruin.slang

   • 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

   To complicate.slang

   • Don’t jazz it too much!
6. 6

   To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.USdatedintransitive

   • ‘Jazzing?’ Temple whispered […]. ‘Yes, putty-face!’ the woman said. ‘How do you suppose I paid that lawyer?’
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   To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.intransitiveslang

   • 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.’
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   To distract or pester.slangtransitive

   • Stop jazzing me!
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   To ejaculate.slang

   • 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.

syn. ravage · jam · vitalise · confuscate · turn tricks · bug