jazz up

jazz  (jz)

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 exaggerate or lie 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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jazzer n.

jazzish adj.

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jazz up

Verb

Informal

1. to play (a piece of music) in a jazzy style

2. to make (something) appear more interesting or lively: never seek to jazz up a plain story

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

jazz up - make more interesting or lively; "juice up a party"; "pep up your paper" ginger up, juice up, pep up liven, liven up, enliven, invigorate, animate - make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit"