jazz
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Is jazz a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (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.Examples: "You dare to bring your jazz songs into my house!"; "You all look out now, here I come, everybody step aside, I’m gonna show you where from! I'm gonna blow in this horn and make you know that jazz is the king and let it be so!"; "You see, the kids, they listen to the rap music which gives them the brain damage. With their hippin', and the hoppin', and the bippin', and the boppin', so they don't know what the jazz…is all about! You see, jazz is like the Jello Pudding Pop—no, actually, it's more like Kodak film—no, actually, jazz is like the New Coke: it'll be around forever, heh heh."uncountableusually
2. (figurative) Energy, excitement, excitability.Examples: "“You want something zippy there. Something with a bit of jazz to it!”"; "He loves the risk. The danger. He loves the jazz."figurativelyuncountableusually
3. (with positive terms) Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.Examples: "That show was the jazz!"; "This risotto is simply the jazz."uncountableusually
4. (slang) Semen, jizz.Examples: "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!"; "As he clung to the legs of his captor, he splayed his own out to the side, baring his groin and genitals to the eyes of all just as his jazz began to spurt out onto the stage."slanguncountableusually
verb (English)
1. (slang) To destroy; to ruin.Examples: "You’ve gone and jazzed it now!"Synonyms: annihilateslang
2. (slang) To complicate.Examples: "Don’t jazz it too much!"Synonyms: complexifyslang
3. (intransitive, US slang, dated) To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.Examples: "‘Jazzing?’ Temple whispered […]. ‘Yes, putty-face!’ the woman said. ‘How do you suppose I paid that lawyer?’"Synonyms: sell one's bodyUSdatedintransitiveslang
4. (intransitive, slang) To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.Examples: ""In the old days, heaps of unmarried women were companions, and let me tell you, my dear girl, they had a much better time than they have now, with all this jazzing and short skirts and pretending to have careers. The modern girl hasn't a scrap of decent feeling or sentiment about her. Money--money and notoriety, that's all she's after. That's what we fought the war for--and that's what we've come back to!" "George, do keep to the point. Miss Dorland doesn't jazz--""; "‘Well, if you're going to jazz about the way you do, I suppose you'll need rouge at your age.’"intransitiveslang
5. (slang, transitive) To distract or pester.Examples: "Stop jazzing me!"Synonyms: botherslangtransitive
6. (slang) To ejaculate.Examples: "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."; "I reached around and began jacking off Marshall's prick as I was jazzing his ass."slang
Definition source: Wiktionary