jazzing

Verb

jazz (third-person singular simple present jazzes, present participle jazzing, simple past and past participle jazzed)

1. (slang) To destroy; to ruin.
   • You’ve gone and jazzed it now!

   Synonyms:

   annihilate

2. To play (jazz music).

   Synonyms:

   cook

3. To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
4. To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting.

   Synonyms:

   invigorate

5. (slang) To complicate.
   • Don’t jazz it too much!

   Synonyms:

   complexify

6. (US, dated, intransitive, slang) To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.
   • ‘Jazzing?’ Temple whispered […]. ‘Yes, putty-face!’ the woman said. ‘How do you suppose I paid that lawyer?’1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 59

   Synonyms:

   sell one's body

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