jazzetry
/ˈdʒazɪtri/noun
The reading aloud of poetry to a jazz accompaniment; a recital of poetry accompanied by jazz.
- Chiefly associated with a series of such events in the late 1950s and early 1960s by the British poet Christopher Logue..
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in The Daily Mail. From jazz + -etry.
- the ball of the thumb
- Theban
- the Bank of Mum and Dad
- the Bar
- the Bard
- the Bard of Avon
- the bare bones
- thebe
- the be-all and end-all
- the Bear
- the Beatitudes
- the beautiful game
- the beautiful people
- the Beehive
- the bee's knees
- the beginning of the end
- the benefit of the doubt
- the Berg
- the Bermudas
- Thebes
- the best-laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley
- the best of both (or all possible) worlds
- the best of three (or five etc.)
- the best (or the pick) of the bunch
- the best part of