jazzed

jazz

 (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.

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[Originally, vim, vigor, pep, copulation, semen, perhaps shortening of earlier jasm, vim, vigor and akin to jism.]

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jazz′er n.

jazz′ish adj.

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jazzed

(dʒæzd)

adj

slang US and Canadian excited or delighted

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