Jazz

Jazz Meanings:

• A type of music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles, but generally featuring intricate rhythms, improvisation, prominent solo segments, and great freedom in harmonic idiom played frequently in a polyphonic style, on various instruments including horn, saxophone, piano and percussion, but rarely stringed instruments
• empty or insincere or exaggerated talk; as, don't give me any of that jazz
• A style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands
• jaz, jas, jass, jasz (all dated, used from about 1912 to about 1918)
• (music) 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.
• (figurative) Energy, excitement, excitability.
• The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s). Synonyms: stuff; see also Thesaurus:junk, Thesaurus:thingy and all that jazz
• (with positive terms) Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
• Nonsense. Synonyms: rubbish, wass; see also Thesaurus:nonsense
• To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
• (slang) To complicate. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
• (intransitive, US slang, dated) To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.
• (intransitive, slang) To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.
• (slang, transitive) To distract or pester.
• (to destroy): annihilate, ravage; see also Thesaurus:destroy
• (to play jazz music): cook, jam; see also Thesaurus:play music
• (to enliven): invigorate, vitalise; see also Thesaurus:enliven
• (to complicate): complexify, confuscate; see also Thesaurus:complicate
• (to prostitute oneself): sell one's body, turn tricks; see also Thesaurus:prostitute oneself
• (to pester): bother, bug; see also Thesaurus:annoy
• (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /ˈʒas/
• “jazz” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “jazz”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• (uncountable) jazz (form of music)
• "jazz" in Kielitoimiston sanakirja (Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish).
• (music) jazz (music style)
• “jazz”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
• IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛt͡s/*, /ˈd͡ʒaz/, /ˈd͡ʒɛz/
• (relational) jazz Synonym: jazzistico
• jazz in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• (slang) marijuana Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marihuana
• (music) jazz (music genre)
• “jazz”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• jazztobak (“cannabis”)