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Definition jazz
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.
Noun
jazz (uncountable)
- (music) 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).
- (with positive terms) Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
- Nonsense.
Verb
jazz (third-person singular simple present jazzes, present participle jazzing, simple past and past participle jazzed)
- To destroy.
- To play (jazz music).
- To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
- To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting; excite
- To complicate.
- (intransitive, US slang, dated) To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.
- (intransitive) To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around. [from 20th c.]
- To distract/pester.
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