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jazzbo U.S. slang.|ˈdʒæzbəʊ|
Also jasbo, jazz-bo.
[Origin unknown; perh. a corruption of the name Jasper; cf. jazz n.]
(See quots.)
1917Sun (N.Y.) 5 Aug. iii. 3/7 ‘Jasbo’ is a form of the word [sc. jazz] common in the varieties, meaning the same as ‘hokum’, or low comedy verging on vulgarity. 1919Quill June 9 Have you heard Jazzbo the chocolate syncopated Hobohemian at the Moulin Rouge Cave? 1923H. C. Witwer Fighting Blood ix. 272, I merely commence to stutter an apology, when the old jazzbo [= fellow] shuts me off kind of angrily. 1923N.Y. Times 9 Sept. vii. 2/1 Jazzbo, bladder and slapstick comedy. 1926Whiteman & McBride Jazz v. 122 Sousa..says jazz slid into our vocabulary by way of the vaudeville stage, where at the end of a performance, all the acts came back on the stage to give a rousing, boisterous finale called a ‘jazzbo’. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §438/1 Dissolute person,..jazz-bo. Ibid. §583/18 Jazz-bo, jazzbo, a negro performer, esp. in a minstrel show. Ibid. §868/3 Jazzbo, a colored American soldier. 1944[see jigaboo]. 1957J. Kerouac On Road (1958) ii. i. 113 He dodged a mule wagon; in it sat an old Negro plodding along... He slowed down the car for all of us to turn and look at the old jazzbo moaning along. |