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jazz J0023900 (jăz)n.1. Music a. A style of music, native to America, characterized by a strong but flexible rhythmic understructure with solo and ensemble improvisations on basic tunes and chord patterns and, more recently, a highly sophisticated harmonic idiom.b. Big band dance music.2. Slang a. Animation; enthusiasm.b. Nonsense.c. Miscellaneous, unspecified things: brought the food and all the jazz to go with it.v. jazzed, jazz·ing, jazz·es v.tr.1. Music To play in a jazz style.2. Slang a. To utter exaggerations or lies to: Don't jazz me.b. To give great pleasure to; excite: The surprise party jazzed the guest of honor.c. To cause to accelerate.v.intr. Slang To exaggerate or lie.Phrasal Verb: jazz up Slang To make more interesting; enliven: jazzed up the living area with beaded curtains.
[Originally, vim, vigor, pep, copulation, semen, perhaps shortening of earlier jasm, vim, vigor and akin to jism.]
jazz′er n.jazz′ish adj.jazzed (dʒæzd) adjslang US and Canadian excited or delightedjazzed
jazzed (up) 1. alert; having a positive state of mind. I am jazzed up and ready to face life. Those guys were jazzed and ready for the game. 2. . intoxicated. Dave was a bit jazzed up, but not terribly. Gert was jazzed out of her mind. 3. . enhanced; with something added; made more enticing. The third act was jazzed up with livelier music. 4. . forged or altered. Better not try to cash a jazzed check at this bank.See also: jazzjazzed verbSee jazzed upSee also: jazzEncyclopediaSeejazz |