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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
Phrasal Verb: To exaggerate or lie.
jazz up Slang
To make more interesting; enliven: jazzed up the living area with beaded curtains.
[Originally, vim, vigor, pep, copulation, semen, perhaps shortening of earlier jasm, vim, vigor and akin to jism.]
jazz′er n.
jazz′ish adj.
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jazz
(dʒæz)n
1. (Jazz)
a. a kind of music of African-American origin, characterized by syncopated rhythms, solo and group improvisation, and a variety of harmonic idioms and instrumental techniques. It exists in a number of styles. Compare blues See also bebop, bop11, Dixieland, free7, hard bop, harmolodics, mainstream2, modern jazz, New Orleans jazz, swing28, trad
b. (as modifier): a jazz band.
c. (in combination): a jazzman.
2. informal enthusiasm or liveliness
3. slang rigmarole; paraphernalia: legal papers and all that jazz.
4. slang obsolete African-American sexual intercourse
5. slang South African a dance
vb
6. (Jazz) (intr) to play or dance to jazz music
7. slang obsolete African-American to have sexual intercourse with (a person)
[C20: of unknown origin]
ˈjazzer n
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jazz
(dʒæz)n.
1. music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.
2. a style of dance music marked by some of the features of jazz.
3. Slang. liveliness; spirit; excitement.
4. Slang. insincere or pretentious talk.
5. Slang. similar or related but unspecified things: We like sightseeing, museums, and all that jazz.
v.t. 6. to play (music) in the manner of jazz.
7. Slang.
v.i. a. to excite or enliven.
b. to accelerate.
8. Slang. to act or proceed with great energy or liveliness.
9. jazz up, Slang.
a. to enliven.
b. to embellish.
[1910–15, Amer.]
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jazz
Past participle: jazzed
Gerund: jazzing
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jazz
An improvised Afro-American musical idiom. Although its melodies and harmonies are influenced by European music, its rhythms are fundamentally African. Jazz is marked by evolutionary changes that represent more than simple fashion or responses to social change. Its unusual rhythms and complex harmony arrangements combined with a mix of technique and improvisation have influenced everything in its wake.
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| Noun | 1. | jazz - empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz" |
| 2. | jazz - a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles scat, scat singing - singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument popular music, popular music genre - any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time) jazz - a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands boogie, boogie-woogie - an instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano) cool jazz - jazz that is restrained and fluid and marked by intricate harmonic structures often lagging slightly behind the beat funk - an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar hot jazz - jazz that is emotionally charged and intense and marked by strong rhythms and improvisation trad - traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s jive, swing music, swing - a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz | |
| 3. | jazz - a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands dance music - music to dance to jazz - a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles | |
| Verb | 1. | jazz - play something in the style of jazz music - musical activity (singing or whistling etc.); "his music was his central interest" |
| 2. |  jazz - have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, be intimate, lie with, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with, make love, hump, love, bed, bang, make out, know |
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Translations
مُوسِيقِى الـجَّازُموسيقى الجاز
jazzdžezdžezový
jazz
jazzjatsi
džez
dzsessz
djass
ジャズ
재즈
džiazasdžiazodžiazo stiliaus
džeza-džezs
džez
džezjazz
džezџез
jazz
ดนตรีแจ๊ส
nhạc jazz
jazz
[dʒæz]A. N
1. (Mus) → jazz m
2. (= talk) → palabrería f
and all that jazz → y otras cosas por el estilo
don't give me that jazz! → ¡no me vengas con cuentos!
and all that jazz → y otras cosas por el estilo
don't give me that jazz! → ¡no me vengas con cuentos!
jazz up VT + ADV
1. (Mus) → sincopar
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jazz
n
(Mus) → Jazz m
jazz
:jazz ballet
n → Jazzballett nt
jazzman
n pl <-men> → Jazzer m
jazz rock
n → Jazz-Rock m
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
jazz
[dʒæz] n (Mus) → jazz m...and all that jazz (fig) (fam, usu pej) → ... eccetera eccetera
jazz up vt + adv
a. (party, room, outfit) → vivacizzare
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
jazz
(dʒaz) noun popular music of American Negro origin. She prefers jazz to classical music; (also adjective) a jazz musician.
ˈjazzy adjective1. bright or bold in colour or design. a jazzy shirt.
2. of or like jazz. jazzy music.
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jazz
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