Meaning of jazz | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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
2. 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.
   uncountable, usually
3. A diminutive of the male given name Jasper.
4. To exaggerate or lie.
5. Energy, excitement, excitability
6. Energy, excitement, excitability.
   figuratively, uncountable, usually
7. A diminutive of the male given name James.
8. A diminutive of the female given name Jasmine.
9. To make more interesting; enliven: jazzed up the living area with beaded curtains.
10. The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s)
11. The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s).
    uncountable, usually
12. 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.
13. Something of excellent quality, the genuine article
14. Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
    uncountable, usually
15. popular music of American Negro origin. She prefers jazz to classical music; (also adjective) a jazz musician. jazzmusiek موسيقى الجاز джаз jazz džez; džezový der Jazz jazz τζαζjazz džäss جاز jazz jazz גָ'אז गीतनाट्य jazz dzsessz jazz djass jazz ジャズ 재즈 džiazas džezs; džeza- jaz jazzjazzjazz جاز، يو ډول امريكائى موسيقى jazz jazz джаз džez; džezový jazz džez gräll, prålig ดนตรีแจ๊ส caz 爵士樂 джаз امریکا کے حبشیوں کا مخصوص گانا nhạc Jazz 爵士音乐
    also adjective
16. Nonsense
17. Nonsense.
    uncountable, usually
18. Semen, jizz.
    slang, uncountable, usually
19. 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.
    Music
20. A red-skinned variety of eating apple.
    uncountable, usually
21. Slang a. Animation; enthusiasm.
    Slang
22. Music To play in a jazz style.
    Music
23. Slang a. To utter exaggerations or lies to: Don't jazz me.
    Slang
24. (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
25. informal enthusiasm or liveliness
    informal

Equivalents

Examples

“You dare to bring your jazz songs into my house!”

“You all look out now, here I come, everybody step aside, I’m gonna show you where from! I'm gonna blow in this horn and make you know that jazz is the king and let it be so!”

“You see, the kids, they listen to the rap music which gives them the brain damage. With their hippin', and the hoppin', and the bippin', and the boppin', so they don't know what the jazz…is all about! You see, jazz is like the Jello Pudding Pop—no, actually, it's more like Kodak film—no, actually, jazz is like the New Coke: it'll be around forever, heh heh.”

““You want something zippy there. Something with a bit of jazz to it!””

“He loves the risk. The danger. He loves the jazz.”

“and all that jazz”

“What is all this jazz lying around?”

“I'm just going down to the shops and jazz.”

“Dad, I want to be a jock. All a jock needs is some hep patter and a real gone image. Now, they just don't teach that jazz in college.”

“That show was the jazz!”

“This risotto is simply the jazz.”

“Stop talking jazz.”

“Suddenly, Bobby oozed his jazz into Gene's throat.”

“[…] making Glenn feel as though he could never stop shooting his jazz wildly up inside the man's brawny body!”

“As he clung to the legs of his captor, he splayed his own out to the side, baring his groin and genitals to the eyes of all just as his jazz began to spurt out onto the stage.”

“Jasper's teeth were set; he didn't move. "Jazz, this isn't anything you've seen before," Alice said quietly. "Trust me."”

“His real name was James, but those who knew him seemed never to call him that. He was Jamesy, or more often Jazz.”

“"He calls you Jazzikins." He would. He had. Couldn't call me Jazz or Jasmine the way everyone else did.”

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