jasz

Noun

jazz (usually uncountable, plural jazzes)

1. (usually) 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.
   • You dare to bring your jazz songs into my house!1927, Samson Raphaelson, Alfred A. Cohn, The Jazz Singer, spoken by Jakie Rabinowitz (Al Jolson)
2. (figuratively, usually) Energy, excitement, excitability.
   • “You want something zippy there. Something with a bit of jazz to it!”1923 May 17, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “(please specify the page)”, in The Inimitable Jeeves, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
3. (usually) The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s).
   • and all that jazz

   Synonyms:

   stuff, Sorted by number of Google hits, widget, hickey, gizmo, thingy, gimmick, thingie, jigger, gismo

4. (usually) Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
   • That show was the jazz!
5. (usually) Nonsense.
   • Stop talking jazz.

   Synonyms:

   rubbish, wass, absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, apple grease, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls

6. (slang, usually) Semen, jizz.
   • Suddenly, Bobby oozed his jazz into Gene's throat.1968, Len Harrington, In drag, page 7

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