jazzn.adj.

Brit.

/dʒaz/, U.S.

/dʒæz/

Forms: 1900s jas (rare), 1900s jascz (nonstandard, rare), 1900s jasz (nonstandard, rare), 1900s jaz (rare), 1900s– jass, 1900s– jazz.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: jasm n.

Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps originally a variant of jasm n.Attested earliest in California, frequently in baseball contexts and as college slang. The existence of an article (with reference to use of the word in sense A. 1) entitled ‘In praise of ‘jazz,’ a futurist word which has just joined the language’ (by E. J. Hopkins in Bulletin (San Francisco) (1913) 5 Apr. 28) suggests that the word was then a very recent innovation. Apparently first applied to music in Chicago. Slightly earlier uses of the term are reported orally (some cited by D. Holbrook in Storyville 50 (1973–4 ) 46-58), but cannot be confirmed. For a connection between Californian and Chicago uses compare:1917 New Victor Records Jass Band & Other Dance Selections in H. O. Brunn Story Orig. Dixieland Jazz Band (1960) viii. 92 (plate) The Original Dixieland Jass Band...Spell it Jass, Jas, Jaz or Jazz—nothing can spoil a Jass band. Some say the Jass band originated in Chicago. Chicago says it comes from San Francisco—San Francisco being away off across the continent. Anyway, a Jass band is the newest thing in the cabarets, adding greatly to the hilarity thereof. While the origins of jazz music (compare sense A. 3) are popularly associated with New Orleans, evidence for early use of the word there is inconclusive; ragtime n. appears to have been the preferred term (compare earlier ragtime n., swing n.² 10b, and slightly earlier blues n.; compare also discussion in Comments on Etymology 30 (2000)). Compare the following conflicting statements (it is possible that the reporter from Variety used a term known to him, but not in use locally):1916 Variety 3 Nov. 20 Variety's New Orleans correspondent [reports that]..‘Jazz Bands’ have been popular there for over two years.1919 Lit. Digest 26 Apr. 47 The phrase ‘jazz band’ was first used by Bert Kelly in Chicago in the fall of 1915, and was unknown in New Orleans. The suggestion that the sexual sense (see sense A. 4) was primary is unlikely, chiefly for semantic reasons, though not impossible. A derivation < French jaser to chatter, gossip (16th cent. in Middle French; also earlier in an apparently isolated attestation as gaser with reference to birdsong; of uncertain origin) is also unlikely on semantic grounds. The French word (or a homonym) is apparently also occasionally attested with reference to sexual activity, although in the following example the illustrative French quotation is taken from a 17th-cent. text:1896 J. S. Farmer Vocab. Amatoria 162 Jaser (or Jazer). To copulate; ‘to chuck a tread’. Tu as les genoux chauds, tu veux jaser.—La Comédie des proverbes. A supposed African origin discussed in the article from which the following passage is taken was later shown to have been invented by the author:1917 Sun (N.Y.) 5 Aug. iii. 3/6 Variously spelled Jas, Jass, Jaz, Jazz, Jasz and Jascz. The word is African in origin. It is common on the Gold Coast of Africa and in the hinterland of Cape Coast Castle. The word was associated with the name of the apparently fictitious Jasbo Brown by 1919: see jazzbo n. and discussion at that entry. A suggested etymology < the female forename Jezebel (see Jezebel n.), allegedly used in 19th-cent. New Orleans to denote a prostitute, cannot be substantiated, nor can a derivation < jasmine n., suggested on the grounds that it may have been a perfume worn by prostitutes. Both suggestions also pose semantic problems. A suggested etymology < Irish teas heat (ultimately < the same Indo-European base as classical Latin tepēre to be warm: see tepid adj.) cannot be substantiated and is unlikely in view of the context of early uses of the word. For a detailed discussion of a number of early theories concerning the word's origin, including some of those mentioned above, compare A. P. Merriam and F. H. Garner in Ethnomusicology 12 (1968) 373-96. The forms jasz and jascz are only attested in quot. 1917 above and in texts derived from it; they are unlikely to have had any actual currency. The forms jas and jaz went out of use before the middle of the 20th cent.

Originally U.S. slang.

A. n.

1. U.S. slang. Energy, excitement, ‘pep’; restlessness; animation, excitability. Now rare.In early use frequently in contexts relating to baseball; in quots. 1912¹, 1912² used attributively to describe a deceptively difficult and fast throw.

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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun]

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1912 Los Angeles Times 2 Apr. iii. 2/1 Ben's Jazz Curve... ‘I got a new curve this year... I call it the Jazz ball because it wobbles and you simply can't do anything with it.’

1912 Los Angeles Times 3 Apr. iii. 3/1 Henderson cut the outside corner with a fast curve also for one strike. Benny calls this his ‘jass’ ball.

1913 Bulletin (San Francisco) 6 Mar. 16 What is the ‘jazz’? Why it's a little of that ‘old life’, the ‘gin-i-ker’, the ‘pep’, otherwise known as the enthusiasalum.

1915 Daily Californian 13 Oct. 4/3 This spirit of heartiness is carried to the bleachers... It puts fight into the team, ‘jazz’ into the rooting section, and has helped win games for Stanford and Washington.

1923 L. J. Vance Baroque vi. 34 Only about enough heroin to give every man, woman and child in N'York the jazz for a week.

1928 ‘J. Sutherland’ Knot xii. 163 ‘What is really the matter?’ she asked. ‘You look extraordinarily queer, and you ought to be full of jazz.’

1949 Gaz. & Bull. (Williamsport. Pa.) 17 Aug. 4/7 The jazz, the pep, The giddy whirl Are but a plume that time will furl.

1955 Pop. Sci. Nov. 264/2 A Lincoln-built OHV engine has enough jazz to urge Mark II very nearly as fast as the fastest.

1984 R. Jackson & M. Lupica Reggie 7 I managed to put some jazz in.

2. colloquial (chiefly U.S.).

a. Unnecessary, misleading, or excessive talk; nonsense, rubbish. In quot. 1930 (in extended use): unnecessary ornamentation.

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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]

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1913 E. T. Gleeson in Bulletin (San Francisco) 3 Mar. 13/5 McCarl has been heralded all along the line as a ‘busher’, but now it develops that this dope is very much to the ‘jazz’.

1917 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 6 Apr. 16 You meet a young lady and tell her how extremely well she is looking... Then she responds: ‘Jazz, old fellow, pure jazz! Shut it off and talk regular.’

1918 Dial. Notes 5 25 Jazz, talk; ‘gas’. College students.

1930 E. Pound Draft of XXX Cantos vii. 27 Sham-Memphis columns, And beneath the jazz a cortex, a stiffness or stillness, Shell of the older house.

1958 H. Ellison Deadly Streets 56 What was this jazz about me talkin' to Fairchild.

1987 S. Stark Wrestling Season 78 Will you can it with the new car jazz?

2000 Punch (Nassau, Bahamas) 11 Dec. 27/3 (caption) Marketing. They feed us that Jazz, hopin' it'll sucker us into buyin' their CD.

b. Something that one regards as hard to describe or understand; (more generally) ‘stuff’, ‘things’. Chiefly depreciative.

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1953 D. Wallop Night Light iii. 153 What do you call that jazz, alpaca or something?

1958 ‘E. McBain’ Killer's Choice (1960) iii. 31 ‘How was school today, darling?’ ‘Oh, the same old jazz,’ Monica said.

1969 C. F. Burke God is Beautiful, Man (1970) 20 I asked one of the young men if he understood what had been read from the Bible. His response was that he ‘didn't get that jazz’.

1971 B. Malamud Tenants 165 I read all about that formalism jazz in the library and it's bullshit.

1995 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 20 Mar. (Guide) 10 It's like an army war game exercise—shooting the enemy and slogging it through rough terrain. Thankfully, there isn't any of that technical jazz that ‘enthusiasts’ enjoy so much.

c. and all that jazz: and all that sort of thing; and stuff like that; and so on; et cetera.

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1929 Washington Post 3 June 16/8 Combined with what threatekned [sic] to be merely another exploitation of the recklessness of modern youth there is a bit of high-power police stuff that partialy [sic] takes the curse off all that jazz.]

1956 G. Axelrod Will Success spoil Rock Hunter? I. 25 I ski in Switzerland—blue shadows on white snow and all that jazz.

1960 Punch 9 Mar. 345/1 Politics, world affairs, film stars' babies and all that jazz, the things that the adult world seems obsessed with, do not interest us at all.

1968 B. Turner Sex Trap ix. 69 Always been a good girl and all that jazz, but a bit stage-struck.

1972 J. Porter Meddler & her Murder x. 132 Come to identify the body..and all that jazz.

2000 I. Edward-Jones My Canapé Hell (2001) i. 23 We might, if you're lucky, put your photo on it, and all that jazz.

a. A type of popular music originating (esp. in ragtime and blues) among African Americans in the southern United States, typically performed by ensembles and broadly characterized by regular forceful rhythms, syncopated phrasing, modifications to traditional instrumental tone and pitch (such as the use of blue notes), and improvisatory soloing.Jazz has developed many distinctive subgenres: see acid jazz n., bebop n., Dixieland at Dixie n.² 1c, swing n.² 10b. For free jazz, modern jazz, progressive jazz, trad jazz, etc., see the first element. Cf. also cool adj. 2e and ragtime n.The influence of jazz on other musical genres is also reflected in the terms treated at Compounds 1b.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > jazz > [noun]

jazz1915

1915 Chicago Sunday Tribune 11 July viii. 8/1 The ‘blues’ had done it. The ‘jazz’ had put pep into the legs that had scrambled too long for the 5:15.

1915 Chicago Sunday Tribune 11 July viii. 8/1 ‘What are the blues?’ he asked gently. ‘Jazz!’ The young woman's voice rose high to drown the piano.

1921 Contemp. Rev. Jan. 53 The frank barbarism began its appeal with the nigger minstrels and has landed us in ‘jazz’.

1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song i. iv. 26 ‘The faster you can move your legs, the more you think you're dancing.’..‘You don't like jazz?’ queried the young lady. ‘I do not,’ said Soames.

1933 Fortune Aug. 47/2 Their use of ‘jazz’ includes both Duke Ellington's Afric brass and Rudy Vallée crooning I'm a Dreamer, Aren't We All?

1948 Pottstown (Pa.) Mercury 14 May 17 (advt.) Stan Kenton. Eight good instrumental and vocal examples of jazz in the progressive vein.

1955 D. Brubeck in N. Shapiro & N. Hentoff Hear me talkin' to Ya 361 When there is not complete freedom of the soloist, it ceases to be jazz... If it's spontaneous, it's going to be rough, not clean, but it's going to have the spirit which is the essence of jazz.

1966 Transition 27 45 The break with traditional and ‘thirties’ jazz was a severe one, affecting harmonies, dynamics, and the approach to improvisation.

1968 A. Dankworth Jazz 1 Most jazz is in the form of melodic or rhythmic variations upon a theme. The theme is usually a twelve-bar blues melody, the chorus of a popular dance-tune, or a specially composed theme.

1970 Melody Maker 12 Sept. 35/1 Much of the jazz presented by today's innovators avoids the free-flowing 4/4 or 3/4 essence in favour of a beat that is often heavier though not necessarily cruder.

1980 Times 1 July 15/4 Popular music, from jazz to rock, is crucial to twentieth century culture.

1990 Music Theory Spectrum 12 181 Taylor, Coleman, and John Coltrane helped to forge a new era in jazz, characterized by the introduction of harmonic, rhythmic, and timbral freedoms.

2006 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 16 Apr. (Features section) 12 The grown-ups would sit around listening to jazz and drinking wine.

b. (a) A piece of jazz music (now rare); (b) spec. a passage of improvised music in a jazz performance (rare).

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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > passages in jazz

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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > [noun] > jazz piece

jazz1918

1918 Independent (U.S.) 26 Oct. 126/1 Voices call insistently for a ‘hot jazz’, others, frowned upon as sentimentalists, urge ‘Annie Laurie’, still others demand ‘that rattling good march-thing’.

1919 Times 20 Jan. 11/3 The solo pieces had..a quite individual flavour—a ‘Cradle Song’ with a sort of Muscovite tune, followed by ‘the Chosen Tune’, rather of the ‘Londonderry’ type; then a Pastorale, alert and irresponsible, rambling and poetic, and ‘Dansons!’ a Jazz.

1920 Harvey's Weekly 24 July 14/2 That isn't a keynote; it's a jazz.

1921 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Jan. 50 All the latest popular hits..all this season's jolliest jazzes.

1926 A. Niles in W. C. Handy Blues 8 The notes..which follow this rest, fill in the following break, and themselves are called ‘the break’, or ‘the jazz’.

2006 B. Strong Bk. of Poems 62 With a trumpet in his hands, his feet would come alive And you could bop to his original jazzes, blues and jives.

c. Any of various styles of dance performed to or associated with jazz music; spec. (a) (frequently with the) a ragtime dance (now rare); (b) a dance form having its roots in popular and theatrical dance and characterized especially by athletic movements and an emphasis on improvisation. Cf. jazz dance n. at Compounds 4.Quot. 1919² was erroneously dated 1909 in O.E.D. Suppl. (1976).

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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other popular 20th-century dances > [noun]

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jazz1919

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Lambeth Walk1937

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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other dances > [noun]

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1919 Punch 12 Mar. 193/1 ‘Whitehall’, says a society organ, ‘has succumbed to the Jazz, the Fox-trot and the Bunny-hug.’

1919 C. Stewart Uncle Josh in Society (gramophone-record) One lady asked me if I danced the jazz.

1919 ‘Monsieur Pierre’ How to Jazz 7 The Jazz is a three-step dance done to four-beat time. The three steps fall on the first three beats of the bar, the third being prolonged to last two beats, namely, the third and fourth. There are three distinct movements, which may be described as the Straight Jazz, the Side Jazz and the Jazz-Roll.

1920 San Antonio (Texas) Light 14 Nov. (headline) Eskimos dance jazz.

1921 W. Le Queux Secret Telephone iii. 48 I was thoroughly enjoying a delightful jazz with the child.

1960 Educ. Theatre Jrnl. 12 p. vi (advt.) School of Theatre and Dance..Harriette Ann Gray, dramatic dance, jazz. Mary Clare Sale, ballet.

1979 Dance Res. Jrnl. 11 60/1 Ballet, modern dance, jazz, tap, and International Folk Dance represent the West.

1995 Dance Connection Feb.–Mar. 33/2 Pointe work becomes elastically resilient in an effort to accommodate the hip thrusts of jazz or the floor-scraping movements of modern.

4. U.S. slang. Sexual intercourse; an instance of this. Cf. jazz v. 5, jazzing n. 2. Now rare.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse

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1918 J. Dos Passos Jrnl. 11 Nov. in Fourteenth Chron. (1973) 229 Talk is mainly of seasickness and the possibility of French jazz.

1928 in A. W. Read Lexical Evid. Folk Epigraphy Western N. Amer. (1935) 62 Take your girl out ther..in the bushes for a Jaz.

1934 J. T. Farrell Young Manhood Studs Lonigan xi. 174 You better come with me tonight, and get yourself a fast and furious jazz.

1950 A. Lomax Mister Jelly Roll (1952) 47 Winding Boy is a bit on the vulgar side. Let's see—how could I put it—means a fellow that makes good jazz with the women.

1994 Amer. Lit. Hist. 6 338 A well-known euphemism (jazz for copulation).

B. adj. (chiefly attributive).

1. Suggestive of jazz (in various senses), jazzy; lively; sophisticated; unconventional.

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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] > smart

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as fine as fivepence-

the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [adjective] > not conforming to standard behaviour

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1917 Los Angeles Times 30 Apr. ii. 4/8 Polly Moran, queen of the jazz comediennes, is the high-power fun maker who keeps things moving at the rate of a million laughs a minute.

1919 Current Opinion Aug. 98/3 Boston is only slightly Jazz.

1922 Glasgow Herald 14 Dec. 5 He has some justification for using this jazz language.

1938 S. M. Bessie (title) Jazz journalism: the story of the tabloid newspapers.

1964 Washington Post 6 Sept. g5/7 The vocal takes on a slightly jazz sound with riffs and a minor emphasis.

1992 Atlantic Aug. 96/3 It may be Montaigne's most precious gift. That and his jazz spirit, his championing of change, growth, and the provisional nature of any statement.

2007 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 24 Aug. 56 With two sax players and a double bass they sound a bit jazz.

2. Of patterns, fabric, clothing, etc.: having a bold or fantastic design; marked by vivid or riotous colouring.

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1919 Punch 7 May 357 Jazz stockings are the latest thing.

1923 Daily Mail 5 May 8 Jazz patterns in dress.

1927 R. H. Wilenski Mod. Movement in Art iii. 165 The ‘jazz’ curtains and sunshades..and the prevalence of bright tints in the theatre.

1930 J. Collier His Monkey Wife xiv. 198 Drawing a jazz silk dressing-gown about her shoulders, she went to the bathroom.

1957 H. Croome Forgotten Place 15 A jazz-patterned carpet on the floor.

2004 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune (Nexis) 17 Aug. e6 Students will be finishing more ‘jazz’ jackets and crazy patched vests from the previous semester.

Compounds

C1. attributive.

a. General attributive, as jazz aficionado, jazz cult, jazz chord, jazz classic, jazz drumming, jazz great, jazz improvisation, jazz king, jazz legend, jazz-lover, jazz purist, jazz queen, etc.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately.

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1917 N.Y. Times 8 Oct. 3/7 Rector's afternoon tea dance in the main dining room from 3 to 6..with Ted Lewis the Jazz King.

1918 Fort Wayne (Indiana) News & Sentinel 8 Apr. 6/2 Benny and Woods on the violin and piano provide some syncopation that gets the jazz lovers going.

1922 Lima (Ohio) News 15 Jan. 6/1 Many new vogues in music have been ushered in, none of them, however, full of life as the jazz cult.

1941 Times 9 Dec. 6/7 A ‘jazz classic’, the ‘St. Louis Blues’, so reorchestrated, had lost its native kick.

1946 Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times 16 June 2 b/2 A jazz purist, he scorns ‘commercial’ music.

1947 Penguin Music Mag. May 30 ‘You can't make a gentleman out of jazz’—a perfectly true statement, and one which all jazz-lovers will applaud.

1956 B. Edwards in S. Traill Play that Music vi. 59 There have been five major stages in jazz-drumming during the last three and a half decades.

1957 K. Rexroth Disengagement in New World Writing No. 11. 30 The innovations of bop, and of Parker particularly, have been vastly overrated by people unfamiliar with music, especially by that ignoramus,..the jazz aficionado.

1963 Music Educators Jrnl. 49 138 The essence of jazz improvisation is the spontaneous creation of a musical idea within a given chord structure.

1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 16 May a5 The MTS Daphne set sail for Havana with jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie, Earl (Fatha) Hines and 400 tourists on board.

1987 Music Educators Jrnl. 74 71/1 Certain fairly common jazz chords such as those that use raised or lowered ninths are left out.

1992 K. J. Bindas America's Musical Pulse iv. xviii. 189 Dizzy Gillespie, a living jazz legend, had similar problems a decade later playing bebop in Cab Calloway's black swing band.

2004 Contemp. Sociol. 33 456/2 Jazz aficionados may not like this view.

2006 AARP Mag. July–Aug. 18 The R&B star adds a passionate gospel undertow to..songs made famous by jazz queens.

b. Designating types of music which combine elements of jazz and another musical genre, as jazz blues, jazz funk, jazz rap, jazz-rock, etc.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > rock > types of

jazz-rock1915

rockabilly1956

rockaboogie1956

hard rock1959

folk-rock1963

soft rock1965

surf rock1965

acid rock1966

raga rock1966

progressive rock1968

Christian rock1969

cock rock1970

punk1970

punk rock1970

space rock1970

swamp rock1970

techno-rock1971

glitter rock1972

grunge1973

glam-rock1974

pub rock1974

alternative rock1975

dinosaur rock1975

prog rock1976

AOR1977

New Wave1977

pomp rock1978

prog1978

anarcho-punk1979

stadium rock1979

oi1981

alt-rock1982

noise1982

noise-rock1982

trash1983

mosh1985

emo-core1986

Goth1986

rawk1987

emo1988

grindcore1989

darkwave1990

queercore1991

lo-fi1993

dadrock1994

nu metal1995

1915 Chicago Sunday Tribune 11 July viii. 8/1 Saxophone players since the advent of the ‘jazz blues’ have taken to wearing ‘jazz collars’.

1916 (title of song) Jazz rag.

1916 Daily Illini (Univ. Illinois) 4 Oct. 6 (advt.) The jazziest of all jaz [sic] tunes, played on the banjo, guitar, saxaphone, violin and piano.

1953 Redlands (Calif.) Daily Facts 30 Apr. 2/6 An unusual..jazz-bop album.

1970 Americana Ann. 578 The year [sc. 1969] was flooded with such new combinations as jazz-rock, folk-rock, and country-rock.

1974 New Musical Express 9 Nov. 26 A Beckified version of the currently ultra-flash jazz-funk stuff that the likes of Billy Cobham and Herbie Hancock are peddling these days.

1983 Times 30 July 7/4 Among the ranks of Britain's few jazz-blues organists.

1995 Unique June 64/2 One of the more satisfying house crossover genres, jazz house stomps in a club-friendly way.

2000 Big Issue 17 July 10/3 Those stonking jazz-funk sound-tracks with more chilli in them than soul-food.

2007 Time Out N.Y. 11 Jan. 125/1 We expect you're in for some superchopsy jazz-rock rather than anything remotely classical.

(a) Designating or relating to instruments used in jazz music, as jazz banjo, jazz clarinet, jazz drum, jazz guitar, jazz piano, jazz trumpet, jazz saxophone, etc.

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1917 Los Angeles Times 30 July ii. 1 (advt.) A combination of the sweet, dreamy tone of the Ukulele blended with that of the Tenor or ‘Jazz’ Banjo—it is simply irresistible!

1921 Tribune (Oakland, Calif.) 10 July x. 4/6 New $78.50 set jazz drums; sacrifice for $50 if taken at once.

1946 Notes 2nd Ser. 4 71 The rattling of tommy guns and the snarls of mobsters blending with the cry of the jazz clarinet.

1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) vi. 65 [High Society] has become a standard solo for jazz clarinet whenever the tune is played.

1963 A. Baraka Blues People xii. 197 Basie's efforts helped move jazz piano away from the older ‘stride’ style with its heavy insistence on an almost guitar-like left hand.

1984 Times 3 Mar. 17/2 Classic mainstream jazz trumpet from a veteran of the Count Basie orchestra.

1994 Early Music 22 177/2 He still teaches jazz saxophone at the Mussorgsky College of Music.

2005 Smithsonian Jan. 58/2 Peterson was still a teenager when he had what he calls his first ‘bruising’ with Art Tatum, considered by many the father of jazz piano.

(b) Designating performers of jazz music, as jazz clarinetist, jazz drummer, jazz guitarist, jazz pianist, jazz player, jazz saxophonist, jazz soloist, jazz trumpeter, jazz vocalist, etc.See also jazz musician n., jazz singer n. at Compounds 3.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > jazz musician

jazzbo1917

jazzer1917

jazzist1917

jazz musician1917

jazz player1917

jazzman1919

syncopator1926

cat1932

gate1937

jitterbug1937

1917 Sandusky (Ohio) Star-Jrnl. 10 June 6/4 Vocal Solo The Liberated Jazz Drummer or fun in a Junk Shop.

1924 Helena (Montana) Independent 31 Mar. 2/2 A jazz soloist..sang ‘Carolina in the Morning’ to radio fans 10,000 miles away in Melbourne, Australia.

1939 W. Hobson Amer. Jazz Music 30 Traditionalists accuse the jazz players..and the jazz men accuse the traditionalists.

1949 L. Feather Inside Be-bop i. 6 The single-note solo style was a complete departure from the pattern of solos in chords established by..conventional jazz guitarists.

1958 New Statesman 25 Jan. 102/3 Jazz-players and promoters..are so much more difficult to handle than the good old-fashioned pit and palais musicians.

1963 A. Baraka Blues People x. 146 Jelly Roll Morton, one of the first jazz pianists, was heavily influenced by the ragtime style.

1971 Times 7 July 16/7 (headline) Louis Armstrong. The greatest jazz trumpeter of his time.

1978 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 91 740 Other pieces are performed by jazz vocalists and female blues singers.

1984 Black Perspective in Music 12 51 The jazz saxophonist cultivates a raspy tone quality.

1996 Japan Times 29 Apr. 8/4 French jazz clarinetist Claude Luter presented the award.

2004 N.Y. Times 24 Oct. ii. 29/1 He apparently had no desire to learn how to improvise through chord changes, the most basic obligation of a jazz saxophonist.

(c) Designating groups which perform jazz music, as jazz combo, jazz ensemble, jazz quartet, jazz quintet, jazz sextet, jazz trio, etc.See also jazz band n., jazz orchestra n. at Compounds 3.

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1918 Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pa.) 11 Mar. 8/3 The Flemings are also a feature as is..a jazz trio that sings three separate songs at the same time.

1923 San Antonio (Texas) Express 2 Oct. 1/1 They have about as much privacy as the saxophone player in a jazz quartet while the four are jazzing.

1958 J. Steinbeck Once there was War p. xix One of the finest jazz combos I ever heard.

1973 Gramophone Jan. 1394/1 They know all about how brasses should phrase and fit together in a jazz ensemble.

1984 Times 15 Nov. 15/7 Has Miss Moreau..come across my early compositions at school for jazz quintet which were so difficult to play that the quintet disbanded rather than face another rehearsal?

2007 Guardian (Nexis) 9 Nov. 6 Self-proclaimed death-jazz act Soil & ‘Pimp’ Sessions..are in essence a relatively straight jazz sextet with an over-eager marketing department.

C2. With adjectives and participles, as jazz-conscious, jazz-influenced, jazz-loving, jazz mad, jazz-minded, jazz-oriented, jazz-struck, jazz-tinged, etc.

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1919 Fort Wayne (Indiana) News & Sentinel 21 Apr. 16/3 There are sixty-five men in the band and a surprising number of instruments to produce the music that set all France jazz mad.

1939 L. Jacobs Rise of Amer. Film xvi. 392 Pictures had taken over the attributes and point of view of a jazz-conscious world.

1947 R. de Toledano Frontiers of Jazz vii. 82 The jazz-struck kids who are today the core of the non-commercial white bands.

1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xvii. 201 Jazz-loving record buyers wore out the grooves.

1977 C. McKnight & J. Tobler Bob Marley ix. 121 Anderson's stinging jazz-tinged wah wah guitar takes the solo honours.

1986 Amer. Music 4 292 Copland was most frequently discussed as a jazz-influenced composer as opposed to a modernist or Americanist.

1995 P. Manuel in P. Manuel et al. Caribbean Currents 251 (Gloss.) Latin jazz , a predominantly instrumental, latter twentieth-century genre featuring jazz-oriented solos over Afro-Cuban rhythms.

2007 News & Rec. (Greensboro, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 26 Apr. b2 One of the smoothest bunches of jazz-minded misfits I've ever heard.

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jazz ballet n.

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1922 N.Y. Times 18 Jan. 21 (advt.) Carpenter's jazz ballet and other new ballets danced by Adolph Bolm.

1972 Times 16 May 14/8 We have a jazz ballet by a Canadian choreographer, set to music that uses a string quartet and a rock quartet.

1993 Sat. Night (Toronto) June 32/3 Jazz ballet took over the musicals, rock 'n' roll was too noisy, TV too small and too stingy with the required sound engineering.

jazz band n.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band > type of

waits1298

consort1587

wait player1610

wind music1650

the fiddles1676

military band1775

German band1819

street band1826

brass band1834

promenade band1836

horn-band1849

pipe band1867

wind-band1876

Hungarian band1882

jazz band1916

jazz orchestra1916

big band1919

road band1922

Schrammel quartet1924

showband1926

spasm band1926

dance-band1927

marching band1930

name band1932

ork1933

silver band1933

sweet band1935

Schrammel orchestra1938

pop band1942

jug band1946

steel band1949

rehearsal band1957

skiffle band1957

ghost band1962

support band1969

support group1969

scratch band1982

1916 Chicago Herald 1 May 4/4 The shriek of women's drunken laughter rivaled the blatant scream of the imported New Orleans Jass Band, which never seemed to stop playing.

1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) vii. 71 The 101 Ranch, a cabaret which employed many jazz-bands, was particularly famous.

2005 Daily Tel. 1 Nov. 28/3 For those who have never encountered Macbeth, this perverse version..accompanied by the ghastly discordant noodlings of a three-piece contemporary jazz band, will be entirely incomprehensible.

jazz club n.

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1917 Spiker 25 Dec. 10/3 H. Williams, Rickard, Putney, Short, Hermann and Duncan were the Jazz Club entertainment committee.

1958 New Statesman 25 Jan. 102/3 Our native music..still flourishes nightly in the jazz-clubs, though best in those where musicians..like to drop in for a little drinking, gossiping, watching the dancers..and perhaps sitting in with the band.

1997 H. Kureishi Love in Blue Time 2 He knew the happenin' cinemas, jazz clubs, parties.

jazz fan n.

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1919 Tatler Apr. 2/1 And jazz! Ye gods! Perdition simply yawns for the jazz fan!

1928 Chicago Defender 28 Jan. 3 (advt.) Every jazz fan will want this new February record.

1958 D. Halperin in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz xx. 241 Calling the young man..a jazz-fan would be off-centre: he is, rather, a jazz convert.

2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Sept. b9/1 Her father, a jazz fan, played June Christy's recording of ‘Great Scot’.

jazz festival n.

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1919 Indianapolis Sunday Star 16 Nov. v. 3/1 Here's a real jazz festival, introducing the world's champion girl trap drummer.

1959 ‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene xi. 184 ‘Jazz festivals’—in Newport, Conn., in Nice, Cannes, San Remo and other European holiday resorts.

2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 4 May ii. 29/4 Rock promoters have learned quite a bit from long-running events like jazz festivals.

jazz joint n.

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1920 San Antonio (Texas) Evening News 3 Dec. (Home ed.) 11/3 Fatty Arbuckle in a Mont Marie jazz joint where he was greeted by cheering audiences.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §366/4 Dance hall,..jazz joint.

1996 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Oct. 218 The same issue [of the magazine] introduced a new term, lifted from the lingo of jazz joints: ‘cool’.

jazz land n.

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1917 Warren (Pa.) Evening Mirror 11 Sept. 5/4 Sam Sing may become a dancing teacher and by interpreting jazz chopstick arias soon gain a competence and return to Jazz land and live happily ever afterwards.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §578/2 Jazzland, the world of jazz.

2000 Wired Feb. 190/4 Petrucciani's crisp, bluesy style and his knack for lyrical improv will be missed in jazzland.

jazz music n.

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1916 Chicago Chem. Bull. Nov. 155/1 Boisterous ‘jass’ music is played at the doors of our assembly rooms.

1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? iii. 46 It made me realize again how true jazz music was, how it echoed everything that was churning inside us.

1973 Listener 19 Apr. 522/2 The excitement in jazz music is usually concerned with nerve.

2003 G. Burn North of Eng. Home Service (2004) iv. 136 They blew twenty-five shillings in the Potomac listening to Claes's Claepigeons playing a kind of boop-de-boop jazz music that wasn't strictly to either of their tastes.

jazz musician n.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > jazz musician

jazzbo1917

jazzer1917

jazzist1917

jazz musician1917

jazz player1917

jazzman1919

syncopator1926

cat1932

gate1937

jitterbug1937

1917 Sun (N.Y.) 5 Aug. iii. 3/7 The jazz musicians and their auditors have the most rhythmic aggressiveness.

1958 R. Horricks in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz ix. 117 The legendary Art Tatum loved to jam with the resident jazz musicians.

2004 S. Dudley Calypso Music in Trinidad iii. 47 Jazz musicians will recognize the second half of this chord progression as ‘rhythm changes’ named for the George Gershwin song ‘I Got Rhythm’.

jazz opera n.

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1918 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 8 Dec. 4/4 A jazz opera with..an all star cast.

1970 New Yorker 29 Aug. 22/2 Recently, I [sc. Rolf Liebermann] commissioned a jazz opera, because I think that is a way to make contact with..young people.

1999 BBC Music Mag. Apr. 51/2 When Ellington died on 24 May 1974 he had just completed a jazz opera.

jazz orchestra n.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band > type of

waits1298

consort1587

wait player1610

wind music1650

the fiddles1676

military band1775

German band1819

street band1826

brass band1834

promenade band1836

horn-band1849

pipe band1867

wind-band1876

Hungarian band1882

jazz band1916

jazz orchestra1916

big band1919

road band1922

Schrammel quartet1924

showband1926

spasm band1926

dance-band1927

marching band1930

name band1932

ork1933

silver band1933

sweet band1935

Schrammel orchestra1938

pop band1942

jug band1946

steel band1949

rehearsal band1957

skiffle band1957

ghost band1962

support band1969

support group1969

scratch band1982

1915 Chicago Examiner 22 May 17/5 (advt.) The original jad orchestra for dancing.]

1916 San Francisco Chron. 28 Aug. 2 (advt.) Techau Tavern... The Jazz Orchestra, under the leadership of Mr. George Gould, San Francisco's newest and most sensational find, for the dance lovers.

1925 Scribner's Mag. July 45/1 The faint echo of a jazz orchestra in the background.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §576/27 Jazz King, Paul Whiteman, jazz orchestra leader.

1995 Grand Royal No. 2. 29/2 I've heard Dixon leading Free Jazz orchestras into sonic symphonic heavens. Very hardcore.

jazz record n.

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1917 Indianapolis Star 7 Nov. 4 (advt.) Another Jazz record that has all the old noises and a few new ones added.

1923 H. Crane Let. 5 Dec. (1965) 159 We had a Victrola... Lots of jazz records, etc.

1999 New Statesman 8 Nov. 42/2 Jazz records have often been defined not so much by their players as by their labels.

jazz scene n.

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1922 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 20 Aug. (Accent Mag.) 8/5 Streatside Eatery Jazz Scene, Wednesday and Thursday; 8 p.m.

1969 Gandalf's Garden iv. 9/1 I was originally on the jazz scene and in a terrible state.

2006 Prospect Aug. 5/2 Here in Oxford's jazz scene..understanding such basics as chord sequences and the cycle of fifths is as essential as ever.

jazz singer n.

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1916 Chicago Defender 30 Sept. 3 (caption) Estelle Harris..appears at the Grand Theater next week with her jass singers and dancers.

1927 (title of film) The jazz singer.

1929 A. Huxley Do what you Will 57 He is employed as a jazz-singer on the music-hall stage.

1969 Daily Tel. 21 Apr. 17/7 No hard boundaries exist to separate jazz singers from run-of-the-mill night club performers.

2005 Metro 26 Sept. (London ed.) 34/5 He is the Starbucks of music: a so-called jazz singer for people who hate jazz.

jazz song n.

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1917 Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pa.) 30 Oct. 6/2 Lew Lewis is a really funny blackface comedian and his jazz song is a hummer.

1923 H. Crane Let. 9 May (1965) 133 Marvelous jazz songs, jokes, etc.

1996 Denver Post 16 June a2/3 Her repertory encompassed show tunes, jazz songs, novelties.., bossa nova, and even opera.

jazz tune n.

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1917 Chicago Sunday Tribune 19 Aug. i. 16/6 (headline) Hotel La Salle stops playing of jazz tunes.

1960 Amer. Q. 12 505 This is a jazz tune rather than a popular song made over into jazz.

2006 Time Out N.Y. 30 Nov. 94/4 Expect everything from 78 rpm jazz tunes to obscure fuzz-rock.

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jazz age n. (frequently with capital initials) a period regarded as characterized by the popularity of jazz; spec. (frequently with reference to the United States) the period between the end of the First World War (1918) and the Great Depression of the 1930s, which was marked by economic prosperity, and dynamic cultural and social change (cf. jazz era n.).

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the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > other historical periods

antiquityc1375

Christian antiquity1577

the days of ignorance1652

the time of ignorance1652

dark ages1656

Lower Empire1668

the age of reason1792

Scythism1793

grand siècle1811

the Age of Enlightenment1825

the Hundred Days1827

Tom and Jerry days1840

regency1841

industrial age1843

Régence1845

viking age1847

ignorance1867

renascence1868

Renaissance1872

gilded age1874

jazz era1919

jazz age1920

post-war1934

steam age1941

postcolonialism1955

information age1960

1920 Dunkirk (N.Y.) Evening Observer 23 Nov. 2/1 We are living in a jazz age and I wonder if a jazz church ought not to be the next development.

1922 F. S. Fitzgerald (title) Tales of the jazz age.

1925 J. Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer iii. v. 391 This young woman..led away by the temptations of cruel and voracious men and the excitement and wickedness of what has been too well named, the jazz age.

1959 T. Griffith Waist-high Culture (1960) iii. 31 In the years between the Armistice and the stock-market crash, came the period we used to call..the Jazz Age.

1999 D. Haslam Manchester, Eng. ii. 62 Married women, especially, had been invested with too many mundane responsibilities to enjoy the Jazz Age.

jazz baby n. (chiefly with reference to the 1920s) a devotee of jazz; esp. a flapper, a fashionable young woman interested in jazz music and dancing, and frequently regarded as somewhat dissolute.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [noun] > of jazz > girl

jazz baby1919

1919 B. Merrill Jazz Baby (sheet music) I'm a Jazz baby, I want to be jazzing all the time.

1920 C. Bayha Jazz Babies' Ball (sheet music) 4 Sweet Jazz babies short and tall, Will be moochin' round the hall.

1932 Circleville (Ohio) Herald 17 June I couldn't stand one of those jazz babies that anybody could get, and no girl on your level would want to marry me.

1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media (1967) ii. xxxi. 348 Baseball..will always remain a symbol of the era of the hot mommas, jazz babies..and the fast buck.

1987 Amer. Music 5 455 Barnet, like many jazz babies who grew up in the 1920s, parlayed his tenor saxophone, raccoon coat, and taste for la dolce vita into a career of hot music and hot living.

1989 Dance Chron. 12 313 The nondrinking, nonsmoking young bride lapses into a thoroughgoing jazz baby.

2003 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 14 Dec. 80/1 (heading) More than 350 fashion icons, ragtraders, promoters, jazz babies, cool dudes and fresh-as-tomorrow faces frolicked at the Dally's Model Agency Christmas party.

jazz chant n. (in English language teaching) a sequence of rhythmic phrases chanted by students in unison, often with accompanying music, as an exercise for learning intonation and cadence.In quot. 1921: a poem employing rhythm and sound in a manner likened to jazz music.

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1921 Standard Jan. 130/1 It seems to us as absurd to find beauty in the Spoon River Anthology, in Chicago Poems, in the jazz chants of Vachel Lindsay, as it is unjust to expect beauty.

1978 C. Graham (title) Jazz chants.

1984 Eng. Jrnl. 73 44/1 I use any method that works: audio-lingual dialogue memorization, dictations,..jazz chants, [etc.].

2004 Childhood Educ. (Nexis) 22 Dec. 104 To help children learn intonation and pronunciation of the new language, jazz chants..can be accompanied with clapping, marching, and drumming.

jazz cigarette n. slang (originally and chiefly British) a marijuana cigarette.

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1992 Herald (Glasgow) 19 Dec. 2/2 ‘Anybody fancy rolling up some jazz cigarettes?’.. So they put some records on and got themselves fine and mellow.

2002 H. Ritchie Friday Night Club (2003) iii. v. 265 Hey, that a jazz cigarette you're smoking?

jazz critic n. a person who reviews recordings and performances of jazz music, esp. professionally.In quot. 1919: a book critic who writes in a style likened to jazz music.

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1919 Dial 23 Aug. 155 A jazz critic... As for the English in which this book is written, it is indescribable... We can hear its counterpart already in the performances of any Jazz band.

1925 Washington Post 15 Mar. (Mag. section) 3 (caption) The jazz critic says, ‘That's a wow.’

2003 J. Murray Jazz x. 202 The music (and some jazz critics protested it wasn't even that) moved ‘forward’, but only as echoing, resonant, hypnotic amplitudes.

jazz dance n. = sense A. 3c.

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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other dances > [noun]

dance of Macabre?c1430

springc1450

lege de moya1529

bobc1550

lusty gallant1569

duret1613

fading1613

huckler1617

ground-measure1621

entry1631

slatter de pouchc1640

ballo1651

Irish trot1651

omnium gatheruma1652

clutterdepouch1652

upspring1654

passacaglia1659

shuffle1659

passacaille1667

flip-flap1676

chaconne1685

charmer1702

Cheshire-round1706

Louvre1729

stick dance1730

white joke1730

baby dance1744

Nancy Dawson1766

fricassee1775

bumpkin1785

Totentanz1789

Flora('s) dance1790

goombay1790

egg-dance1801

supper dance1820

Congo dance1823

slip-jig1829

bran-dance1833

roly-poly1833

Congo1835

mazy1841

furry1848

bull-dance1855

stampede1856

double-shuffling1859

frog dance1863

hokee-pokee1873

plait dance1876

slow dancing1884

snake dance1895

beast dance1900

soft-shoe1900

cakewalk1902

floral dance1911

snake dance1911

apache dance1912

grizzly bear1912

jazz dance1917

jazz dancing1917

jazz1919

wine-dance1920

camel-walk1921

furry dance1928

snake-dance1931

pas d'action1936

trance dancing1956

touch dance1965

hokey-cokey1966

moonwalk1969

moonwalking1983

Crip Walk1989

mapantsula1990

1917 N.Y. Times 8 Mar. 9 (advt.) Original ‘jazz’ dance and Cuben Danzon..in America's most beautiful ballroom.

1919 Punch 30 Apr. 333/3 An early bather was seen executing the Jazz-dance on the beach at Ventnor on Easter Monday.

1963 Spectator 27 Dec. 852/1 In America the jazz-dance..has a validity as..a pop-art expression of one side of the national culture.

2006 Time Out N.Y. 16 Feb. 54/2 This specific brand of ‘-ercise’ combines elements of jazz dance, resistance training, Pilates..and other programs to create a fitness experience for every age and level.

jazz dancer n. a person who performs jazz dance.

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1917 Los Angeles Times 18 Sept. ii. 4/3 A bunch of hectic and inflamed jazz dancers would make the bleachers at a big college game seem..peaceful.

2006 B. P. McCutchen Teaching Dance as Art in Educ. iii. 45/1 Are you a ballerina, a jazz dancer, a Bharata Natyam dancer?

jazz dancing n. = jazz dance n.; the action of performing this.

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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other dances > [noun]

dance of Macabre?c1430

springc1450

lege de moya1529

bobc1550

lusty gallant1569

duret1613

fading1613

huckler1617

ground-measure1621

entry1631

slatter de pouchc1640

ballo1651

Irish trot1651

omnium gatheruma1652

clutterdepouch1652

upspring1654

passacaglia1659

shuffle1659

passacaille1667

flip-flap1676

chaconne1685

charmer1702

Cheshire-round1706

Louvre1729

stick dance1730

white joke1730

baby dance1744

Nancy Dawson1766

fricassee1775

bumpkin1785

Totentanz1789

Flora('s) dance1790

goombay1790

egg-dance1801

supper dance1820

Congo dance1823

slip-jig1829

bran-dance1833

roly-poly1833

Congo1835

mazy1841

furry1848

bull-dance1855

stampede1856

double-shuffling1859

frog dance1863

hokee-pokee1873

plait dance1876

slow dancing1884

snake dance1895

beast dance1900

soft-shoe1900

cakewalk1902

floral dance1911

snake dance1911

apache dance1912

grizzly bear1912

jazz dance1917

jazz dancing1917

jazz1919

wine-dance1920

camel-walk1921

furry dance1928

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pas d'action1936

trance dancing1956

touch dance1965

hokey-cokey1966

moonwalk1969

moonwalking1983

Crip Walk1989

mapantsula1990

1917 Los Angeles Times 18 Sept. ii. 4/3 Jazz dancing is a cross between an explosion and a foot race and is another of the crimes indirectly traceable to the jazz band.

1963 Spectator 27 Dec. 852/1 The so-called jazz-dancing which has insidiously crept into our ballet repertory.

1999 D. Haslam Manchester, Eng. 290 The defenders of high culture considered short skirts and jazz dancing as evidence of spiritual emptiness.

jazz era n. (also with capital initials) = jazz age n.

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the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > other historical periods

antiquityc1375

Christian antiquity1577

the days of ignorance1652

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Lower Empire1668

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Scythism1793

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industrial age1843

Régence1845

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Renaissance1872

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1919 Eng. Rev. Dec. 495 For Mr. Moore to withdraw in the full blast of the jazz era does seem rather..backwards.

1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues ix. 138 The Jazz Era's heyday had been here and gone.

2003 D. A. Jasen Tin Pan Alley 330 The two would write many of the greatest hits of the jazz era.

jazz fusion n. any of various types of music that combine elements of jazz and another musical genre; spec. = jazz-rock at Compounds 1b; cf. fusion n. Additions.

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1938 Atlanta Const. 14 May Sunday Mag. 8/1 There’s quite a lot to these intriguing numbers which are a sort of fusion of jazz and the classics.

1968 N.Y. Amsterdam News 22 June 18/4 The group’s interest in jazz-rock fusion is evident in long solo and group improvisations.]

1976 Washington Post 1 Mar. b9/3 The music generated, representative of the latest wave of jazz fusions, might well be called boogie jazz.

1976 N.Y. Times 29 Aug. d15/5 Picking a careful path between jazz fusion and straight jazz, New Audiences has managed to line up three concerts for the fall season.

2006 Loaded Dec. 53/2 Neither a piano, nor a synthesiser, the advent of Keytars meant jazz fusion could finally be sexy.

jazz hand n. a gesture in which the hand is held with the palm facing forward and the fingers splayed (often while waving rapidly back and forth), usually performed as part of a dance routine; chiefly in plural.

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1978 J. Missett & D. Z. Meilach Jazzercise 30 Jazz Hands are strong!

1990 San Francisco Chron. 10 Sept. b4/2 Lift your chins. When you hit out in your ‘T’, keep your elbow up strong, jazz hands. Pop your hip.

2000 M. Albo Hornito 46 A bunch of faggy guys in sequins..doing Bob Fosse jazz-hand routines.

2007 Times (Nexis) 8 Oct. (T2 section) 12 I love the fact that it's not Oklahoma, where you end on some big song and dance number doing your ‘jazz hands’.

jazz poem n. a poem having stylistic features suggestive of jazz, such as syncopated rhythms or an improvisatory feel; (also) a poem recited or song sung to the accompaniment of jazz.

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1917 Warren (Pa.) Evening Mirror 11 Sept. 5/3 The jazz poem tone that sounds like a cross between a boiler shop and a foundry symphony, will..find expression in the dance.

1923 M. Cowley Let. 8 Nov. in Sel. Corr. K. Burke & M. Cowley (1988) 147 I wrote a jazz poem in jazzy prose and swore I should write no more verse.

1960 Guardian 21 Nov. 7/7 A ‘jazz poem’ read at a recital of modern poetry and jazz.

2005 Observer (Nexis) 2 Oct. (Review section), 11 Backed by Nina Simone-like piano, Odetta made a beseeching jazz poem of 'Mr Tambourine Man'.

jazz poetry n. poetry of this sort.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > recitation of poetry > [noun] > recitation accompanied by jazz or other music

jazz poetry1919

jazzetry1959

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1919 Life 27 Feb. 345 We have Jazz Poetry, or free verse, and Jazz Dancing, which is the free verse of motion.

1959 Listener 26 Mar. 567/3 In the current craze for jazz poetry a mistaken attempt is made to bend the verse to the last of the music.

2007 Boston (Mass.) Herald (Nexis) 10 June 33 Often the night felt like a jazz poetry reading.

jazz tap n. a style of tap dancing performed to jazz music or rhythms; a dance in this style.

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1936 Chicago Defender 8 Feb. 7/6 First to be introduced was..Gloria Jackson, who did a jazz tap.

1971 Los Angeles Times 16 May h7/1 (heading) Park offers dance class in jazz tap.

2000 D. Kirby House on Boulevard St. (2007) 111 You will definitely wake to Emily's senescent jazz-tap routines.

Derivatives

ˈjazz-like adj.

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1920 Christian Sci. Monitor 17 June 14/4 The chargers of the Horse Guards and Lancers showed remarkable proficiency in their new jazz-like caracole around the arena.

1923 K. P. Harrington Catullus & his Infl. ii. 48 Catullus has left us his amazing mastery of the baffling Galliambics, in the unique Attis, where we can hear, as it were, the jazz-like echo of the drums and cymbals.

1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 23 Jan. It opened with a careful and precise exploration of the harmonies the four instruments could achieve in an atonal construction, but then moved into a swinging jazz-like tribute.

1999 Guardian 21 Aug. (Travel section) 3/1 A series of jazz-like improvisations.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

jazzv.

Brit.

/dʒaz/, U.S.

/dʒæz/

Forms: see jazz n. and adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: jazz n.

Etymology: < jazz n. With sense 3 compare earlier jazzer n.

Originally U.S. slang.

1. transitive. U.S. slang. To make a mess of, to ruin; to confuse; to interfere with. Usually with up. Now rare.Quot. 1914 is in the context of a baseball game; cf. note at jazz n. 1.

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society > communication > telecommunication > [verb (intransitive)] > disturb reception by intrusion

interfere1904

jazz1914

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > confuse or disorder [verb (transitive)]

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rufflea1400

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Babelize1600

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inturbidatea1834

bedevil1844

to ball up1884

jazz1914

scramble1927

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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > be unskilled in [verb (transitive)] > bungle

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to make balls of1889

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foozle1892

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fluff1902

to make a muck of1903

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to ball up1911

jazz1914

boob1915

to make a hash of1920

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flub1924

to make a hat of1925

to ass up1932

louse1934

screw1938

blow1943

to foul up1943

eff1945

balls1947

to make a hames of1947

to arse up1951

to fuck up1967

dork1969

sheg1981

bodge1984

1914 San Francisco Chron. 7 May 10 (heading) Venice Tigers step further out in front as Seals lose. C. S. Smith almost jazzes game cinched by Venice.

1917 K. MacLeish Let. Sept. in G. L. Rossano Price of Honor (1991) 23 My orders were all jazzed up, but..they should be here in five or six days.

1929 R. Lynd & H. Lynd Middletown 380 The follies of education and science have jazzed up the whole works, until it takes a man considerable time to find out what is true.

1961 H. Ellison Memos from Purgatory 110 That socking-around I'd gotten had jazzed my brains completely.

1972 R. Barrett Lovomaniacs 421 Sorry, kid, something jazzed up the phone at this end.

a. transitive. To play (music) in the style of jazz; to introduce elements of jazz style into the performance of (a piece of music, etc.); to play in a lively or syncopated manner. Also: to play (an instrument) in a jazz style. In later use frequently with up.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform (music) [verb (transitive)] > specific style or technique

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to run over ——1789

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1915 Chicago Sunday Tribune 11 July viii. 8/1 ‘Blue’ Marion sat down and jazzed the jazziest streak of jazz ever.

1917 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 20 June 10/5 Any ordinary ragtime piece can be Jazzed. Of course, one might not be able to recognize the piece during and after the rendition, but it can be done.

1919 E. Scott All about Latest Dances 76 The nigger bands at home ‘jazz’ a tune; that is to say, they slur the notes, they syncopate, and each instrument puts in a lot of little fancy bits on its own.

1934 Hound & Horn 7 599 The saxaphone..can be as ‘hot’ as the clarinet when it is ‘jazzed up’.

1965 Listener 20 May 738/2 He had jazzed up Weill's music in the modern American manner.

1993 F. Collymore RSVP to Mrs Bush-Hall 131 The steel band seemed to be jazzing up some of the light classicals.

2000 G. Santoro Myself when I am Real (2001) vi. 111 Popular pianist Hazel Scott..had a reputation for ‘jazzing the classics’.

b. intransitive. To play jazz music.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] > perform specific type of music

serenade1671

prelude1680

fugue1783

pastoralize1828

preludize1829

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jivec1938

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1916 Variety 1 Sept. 28/1 Coatless but whiteshirted white musicians who ‘jassed’ away at the raggedy, foxtrotty numbers.

1917 Janesville (Wisconsin) Daily Gaz. 28 June 2/2 An orchestra from the First Regimental band ‘jazzed’ in cabaret order on certain occasions during the program.

1917 Washington Post 5 Aug. (Mag. section) 5/2 It's no jazz band... These guys all play legit. I don't think any one of them ever tried to jazz in his life.

1934 S. Spender Vienna ii. 23 Where radio crazily jazzes.

1993 Village Voice (N.Y.) 20 Apr. 70/2 Her composed works cover an elegant logic with a soft, Feldman-esque veneer. But she can jazz, too.

c. intransitive. To dance jazz (jazz n. 3c).

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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > dances to specific popular music > [verb (intransitive)]

rag1896

jazz1919

rock1931

juke1933

boogie1944

boogaloo1966

to rock out1966

skank1973

disco1976

hip-hop1983

1919 Punch 23 Apr. 318/1 She did not ask whether I could jazz, mainly, I think, because I had already danced with her.

1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover xvii. 313 Poor Connie was rather unhappy. She wouldn't jazz, because she simply couldn't plaster her stomach against some ‘creature's’ stomach.

1966 ‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 19 Chester..waltzed, jazzed, did Catherine wheels, [etc.].

1999 D. Haslam Manchester, Eng. iii. 65 Going to the dance-halls, fox-trotting and jazzing was regarded with a great deal of suspicion by older people.

a. transitive. To excite or thrill (a person); to stimulate or intoxicate; to agitate. Also with up. Frequently in passive.

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the mind > emotion > excitement > exciting > excite [verb (transitive)]

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to steam up1909

jazz1916

steam1922

volt1930

whee1949

to fire up1976

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1916 Collier's 28 Dec. 15/3 Take it from me, I'll jaz em up an' make them two-dollar birds like it.

1917 Ogden (Utah) Standard 7 July 2/2 We have never gotten jazzed up on any of Doc's pills [i.e. his ‘bon mots’].

1918 Red Watch Mark U.S.S. Leviathan 27 Nov. Liverpool girls..were called ‘Duckies’ by the Leviathan seamen... ‘As a lady-killer, Mackintosh..takes belts, medals and cups... He gets the duckies all jazzed up before they can get their second wind.’

1920 H. Wiley Wildcat xviii. 194 When I aims to git jazzed up I aims to get jazzed up.

1967 Surfabout 4 iii. 33/2 I could hardly sleep at all; man, I was jazzed just listening to the hissing swells as they smoothly broke through the night.

1988 J. Ellroy Big Nowhere xxix. 292 Cocteau never jazzed me. Neither did Salvador Dali or any of those guys.

1990 K. Vonnegut Hocus Pocus xxvi. 190 They were immune to the kilovolts of pride the Elders jazzed their brains with... They knew exactly how clumsy and dumb they were.

2004 Screen Internat. 25 June 12/4 I see a lot of my clients getting all jazzed because they hear about things that I know they can't have.

b. transitive. To enliven; to render more interesting, exciting, or vibrant. Usually with up.

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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > spectacular, sensational, or dramatic display > make sensational or dramatic [verb (transitive)]

theatricize1852

sensationalize1863

jazz1917

1917 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 6 Apr. 16 Her hair dresser is consuming an unexpectedly long time in completing her coiffure. So she says, briskly, ‘O, jazz it up somehow! I gotta git a 5 o'clock furry.’

1917 Sun (N.Y.) 5 Aug. iii. 3/6 In the old plantation days when the slaves were having one of their rare holidays and the fun languished some West Coast African would cry out, ‘Jaz her up’, and this would be the cue for fast and furious fun... Curiously enough the phrase ‘Jaz her up’ is a common one to-day in vaudeville and on the circus lot.

1919 Amer. Mag. Nov. 69/1 For ways that is dark and tricks which is vain, the daughters of Eve is peculiar, to jazz up a line of Bret Harte's.

1923 Daily Mail 27 Mar. 8 My colour scheme is rather fetching, don't you think? X—a famous artist—jazzed it up for me.

1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey ii. iii, in Mod. Comedy (1929) 112 Winifred had jazzed the Empire foundations of her room with a superstructure more suitable to the age.

1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Oct. 557/3 The ‘honesty’ and the depth of the rejection here carry no conviction and the attempt to jazz it up leads Mr. Sillitoe where we would expect it to lead him—to bluster and sentimentality.

1974 Guardian 13 June 10/5 He..jazzes the mixture up with a series of film-makers' cliches that one can only describe as stylised film school.

2006 Sydney Morning Herald 20 May 20/1 With attendance plummeting and youthful organists hard to find, some British churches have tried a new karaoke-like machine called Hymnal Plus as a means of jazzing up stale services.

c. transitive. Originally Aeronautics. To open (the throttle of a vehicle) so as to cause the engine to accelerate; to rev (an engine).

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1919 Power Plant Engin. 15 Mar. 290/1 If the pilot finds himself with a suddenly stopped propellor or ‘dead stick’, he will ordinarily first do a nose dive, ‘jazzing’ the throttle meanwhile, to see if the tremendous blast of air on the propeller will start the motor.

1944 H. Brown Walk in Sun vii. 71 It came slowly for a motor-cycle. The rider was obviously having trouble with the rutty road. He jazzed his motor, modulated it, and then jazzed it again.

1961 Atlantic Monthly (Electronic ed.) Sept. I would dip in, then hold the plane's nose up in a near stall and jazz the engine to send the wash churning behind it.

2006 J. F. Boone Mark Martin 81 Once the bike is moving, jazzing the throttle will only light up the rear tire, not whip the bike to the right.

4. intransitive. To move or act in a vigorous, wild, or spirited manner. Also in extended use. to jazz around: to waste time; to mess about, fool around.

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the world > movement > bodily movement > move the body or a member [verb (intransitive)] > move grotesquely

fantasticize1603

jazz1917

1917 E. Hemingway Let. 26 Oct. (2011) I. 56 Carl Edgar and I jazz forth with Frequency.

1918 F. Hunt Blown in by Draft vi. 143 Ole Hen Sauser..started, walking up and down the black and white ivories until he had the brown box rocking and swaying and jazzing like eight electric pianos.

1918 Dial. Notes 5 25 To jazz. 1. To talk to kill time. 2. To walk about to kill time. Rare. ‘I jazzed around all forenoon.’

1922 Dial. Notes 5 142 You mustn't expect to pass your quizzes if you keep jazzing around like this.

1923 Daily Mail 18 Apr. 8 There are a good many present-day books that just give the reader a view of the protagonists jazzing across the pages in a vivid pattern of action, passion or crime.

1935 G. Blake Shipbuilders ix. 257 Rita jazzed complacently back to the bed and laid Wee Mirren in her place.

1958 J. Kesson White Bird Passes vi. 92 ‘It all happened so quick,’ Poll agreed. ‘That you still kind of expect her to come jazzing through the causeway, acting the goat, the way she used to.’

1993 Independent 23 Jan. (Mag.) 21/1 To keep the programme jazzing in unexpected directions he'd stand off-stage semaphoring a series of customised hand signals.

2001 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 11 Apr. 1 In those days Dowling Street..was vibrant, with restaurants, beer lounges, pool halls..and people jazzing around on the street late at night.

5. transitive. U.S. slang. To have sexual intercourse with. Also intransitive.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse

playOE

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gendera1382

to go togetherc1390

to come togethera1398

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diddle1879

to get some1889

fuckeec1890

jig-a-jig1896

perform1902

rabbit1919

jazz1920

sex1921

root1922

yentz1923

to make love1927

rock1931

mollock1932

to make (beautiful) music (together)1936

sleep1936

bang1937

lumber1938

to hop into bed (with)1951

to make out1951

ball1955

score1960

trick1965

to have it away1966

to roll in the hay1966

to get down1967

poontang1968

pork1968

shtup1969

shack1976

bonk1984

boink1985

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > have sexual intercourse with

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haveOE

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ofliec1275

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to make a baby1911

to know (a person) in the biblical sense1912

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yentz1924

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to make love1927

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to give (or get) a tumble1934

shack1935

bang1937

to have it off1937

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tom1949

to hop into bed (with)1951

ball1955

to make it1957

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score1960

naughty1961

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to have away1968

to have off1968

dork1970

shaft1970

bonk1975

knob1984

boink1985

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1920 A. C. Inman Diary 14 Apr. in Inman Diary (1985) I. 167 He had had sexual relations with her (in his slang ‘had jazzed her’).

1929 T. Wolfe Look homeward, Angel (1930) ii. xiv. 176 Jazz 'em all you like,..but get the money.

1930 J. T. Farrell in This Quarter July–Sept. 193 ‘She's cute. I jazzed her too,’ O'Keefe said.

1948 H. MacLennan Precipice (1949) i. 81 My sister was being jazzed by half the neighbourhood cats by the time she was fifteen.

1952 J. Thompson Killer inside Me ii. 9 The nicest looking guy I ever saw and you turn out to be a lousy snooping copper... I don't jazz cops.

1977 Transatlantic Rev. No. 60. 57 One guy will talk about ‘jazzing’ the waitress.

1996 G. P. Pelecanos Big Blowdown 59 Shit, Greek, you told me the next day that you jazzed her all up and down.

6. transitive. U.S. slang. To trick or tease (a person). Cf. razz v. Also intransitive.

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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > banter [verb (transitive)]

tauntc1530

railly1668

rally1672

banter1677

smoke1699

to get, take, or have a rise out of1703

joke1748

to run a rig1764

badinage1778

queer1778

quiz1787

to poke (one's) fun (at)1795

gammon1801

chaff1826

to run on ——1830

rig1841

trail1847

josh1852

jolly1874

chip1898

barrack1901

horse1901

jazz1927

to take the mike out ofa1935

to take the piss (out of)1945

to take the mickey (out of)1948

1927 Kalends of Waverly Press Sept. 2 In by-gone days, when it was desired to do what John Bull calls ‘spoofing’, we gave a man the ‘razzle dazzle’. Today we ‘josh’ him, ‘jazz’ him, ‘razz’ him, [etc.].

1959 ‘W. Williams’ Ada Dallas ii. 174 There would be a lot of feeling that we thought the people were easy to jazz, and then they would be hell-bent to show us they weren't.

1967 G. Baxt Swing Low Sweet Harriet x. 112 ‘I just might give it some thought, at that’. ‘You're jazzing me.’

1978 E. Cleaver Soul on Fire 84 And, over the years, I had refined my own technique of jazzing with the man, keeping him uptight.

2000 M. Maron Storm Track 31 Jason jazzed me that he'd given me such an easy double play that I owed him a good decision on his next DWI defense.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	jazz
释义	jazzn.adj. Brit. /dʒaz/, U.S. /dʒæz/ Forms: 1900s jas (rare), 1900s jascz (nonstandard, rare), 1900s jasz (nonstandard, rare), 1900s jaz (rare), 1900s– jass, 1900s– jazz. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: jasm n. Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps originally a variant of jasm n.Attested earliest in California, frequently in baseball contexts and as college slang. The existence of an article (with reference to use of the word in sense A. 1) entitled ‘In praise of ‘jazz,’ a futurist word which has just joined the language’ (by E. J. Hopkins in Bulletin (San Francisco) (1913) 5 Apr. 28) suggests that the word was then a very recent innovation. Apparently first applied to music in Chicago. Slightly earlier uses of the term are reported orally (some cited by D. Holbrook in Storyville 50 (1973–4 ) 46-58), but cannot be confirmed. For a connection between Californian and Chicago uses compare:1917 New Victor Records Jass Band & Other Dance Selections in H. O. Brunn Story Orig. Dixieland Jazz Band (1960) viii. 92 (plate) The Original Dixieland Jass Band...Spell it Jass, Jas, Jaz or Jazz—nothing can spoil a Jass band. Some say the Jass band originated in Chicago. Chicago says it comes from San Francisco—San Francisco being away off across the continent. Anyway, a Jass band is the newest thing in the cabarets, adding greatly to the hilarity thereof. While the origins of jazz music (compare sense A. 3) are popularly associated with New Orleans, evidence for early use of the word there is inconclusive; ragtime n. appears to have been the preferred term (compare earlier ragtime n., swing n.² 10b, and slightly earlier blues n.; compare also discussion in Comments on Etymology 30 (2000)). Compare the following conflicting statements (it is possible that the reporter from Variety used a term known to him, but not in use locally):1916 Variety 3 Nov. 20 Variety's New Orleans correspondent [reports that]..‘Jazz Bands’ have been popular there for over two years.1919 Lit. Digest 26 Apr. 47 The phrase ‘jazz band’ was first used by Bert Kelly in Chicago in the fall of 1915, and was unknown in New Orleans. The suggestion that the sexual sense (see sense A. 4) was primary is unlikely, chiefly for semantic reasons, though not impossible. A derivation < French jaser to chatter, gossip (16th cent. in Middle French; also earlier in an apparently isolated attestation as gaser with reference to birdsong; of uncertain origin) is also unlikely on semantic grounds. The French word (or a homonym) is apparently also occasionally attested with reference to sexual activity, although in the following example the illustrative French quotation is taken from a 17th-cent. text:1896 J. S. Farmer Vocab. Amatoria 162 Jaser (or Jazer). To copulate; ‘to chuck a tread’. Tu as les genoux chauds, tu veux jaser.—La Comédie des proverbes. A supposed African origin discussed in the article from which the following passage is taken was later shown to have been invented by the author:1917 Sun (N.Y.) 5 Aug. iii. 3/6 Variously spelled Jas, Jass, Jaz, Jazz, Jasz and Jascz. The word is African in origin. It is common on the Gold Coast of Africa and in the hinterland of Cape Coast Castle. The word was associated with the name of the apparently fictitious Jasbo Brown by 1919: see jazzbo n. and discussion at that entry. A suggested etymology < the female forename Jezebel (see Jezebel n.), allegedly used in 19th-cent. New Orleans to denote a prostitute, cannot be substantiated, nor can a derivation < jasmine n., suggested on the grounds that it may have been a perfume worn by prostitutes. Both suggestions also pose semantic problems. A suggested etymology < Irish teas heat (ultimately < the same Indo-European base as classical Latin tepēre to be warm: see tepid adj.) cannot be substantiated and is unlikely in view of the context of early uses of the word. For a detailed discussion of a number of early theories concerning the word's origin, including some of those mentioned above, compare A. P. Merriam and F. H. Garner in Ethnomusicology 12 (1968) 373-96. The forms jasz and jascz are only attested in quot. 1917 above and in texts derived from it; they are unlikely to have had any actual currency. The forms jas and jaz went out of use before the middle of the 20th cent. Originally U.S. slang. A. n. 1. U.S. slang. Energy, excitement, ‘pep’; restlessness; animation, excitability. Now rare.In early use frequently in contexts relating to baseball; in quots. 1912¹, 1912² used attributively to describe a deceptively difficult and fast throw. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] greennesseOE lustinessc1325 forcea1375 vigourc1386 virrc1575 vigour1602 nerve1605 vivacity1649 vis1650 actuosity1660 amenity1661 vogue1674 energy1783 smeddum1790 dash1796 throughput1808 feck1811 go1825 steam1826 jism1842 vim1843 animalism1848 fizz1856 jasm1860 verve1863 snap1865 sawdusta1873 élan1880 stingo1885 energeticism1891 sprawl1894 zip1899 pep1908 jazz1912 zoom1926 toe1963 zap1968 stank1997 1912 Los Angeles Times 2 Apr. iii. 2/1 Ben's Jazz Curve... ‘I got a new curve this year... I call it the Jazz ball because it wobbles and you simply can't do anything with it.’ 1912 Los Angeles Times 3 Apr. iii. 3/1 Henderson cut the outside corner with a fast curve also for one strike. Benny calls this his ‘jass’ ball. 1913 Bulletin (San Francisco) 6 Mar. 16 What is the ‘jazz’? Why it's a little of that ‘old life’, the ‘gin-i-ker’, the ‘pep’, otherwise known as the enthusiasalum. 1915 Daily Californian 13 Oct. 4/3 This spirit of heartiness is carried to the bleachers... It puts fight into the team, ‘jazz’ into the rooting section, and has helped win games for Stanford and Washington. 1923 L. J. Vance Baroque vi. 34 Only about enough heroin to give every man, woman and child in N'York the jazz for a week. 1928 ‘J. Sutherland’ Knot xii. 163 ‘What is really the matter?’ she asked. ‘You look extraordinarily queer, and you ought to be full of jazz.’ 1949 Gaz. & Bull. (Williamsport. Pa.) 17 Aug. 4/7 The jazz, the pep, The giddy whirl Are but a plume that time will furl. 1955 Pop. Sci. Nov. 264/2 A Lincoln-built OHV engine has enough jazz to urge Mark II very nearly as fast as the fastest. 1984 R. Jackson & M. Lupica Reggie 7 I managed to put some jazz in. 2. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). a. Unnecessary, misleading, or excessive talk; nonsense, rubbish. In quot. 1930 (in extended use): unnecessary ornamentation. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] magged talea1387 moonshine1468 trumperyc1485 foolishness1531 trash1542 baggage1545 flim-flam1570 gear1570 rubbisha1576 fiddle-faddle1577 stuff1579 fible-fable1581 balductum1593 pill1608 nonsense1612 skimble-skamble1619 porridge1642 mataeology1656 fiddle-come-faddle1663 apple sauce1672 balderdash1674 flummery1749 slang1762 all my eye1763 diddle-daddle1778 (all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781 twaddle1782 blancmange1790 fudge1791 twiddle-twaddle1798 bothering1803 fee-faw-fum1811 slip-slop1811 nash-gab1816 flitter-tripe1822 effutiation1823 bladderdash1826 ráiméis1828 fiddlededee1843 pickles1846 rot1846 kelter1847 bosh1850 flummadiddle1850 poppycock1852 Barnum1856 fribble-frabble1859 kibosh1860 skittle1864 cod1866 Collyweston1867 punk1869 slush1869 stupidness1873 bilge-water1878 flapdoodle1878 tommyrot1880 ruck1882 piffle1884 flamdoodle1888 razzmatazz1888 balls1889 pop1890 narrischkeit1892 tosh1892 footle1894 tripe1895 crap1898 bunk1900 junk1906 quatsch1907 bilge1908 B.S.1912 bellywash1913 jazz1913 wash1913 bullshit?1915 kid-stakes1916 hokum1917 bollock1919 bullsh1919 bushwa1920 noise1920 bish-bosh1922 malarkey1923 posh1923 hooey1924 shit1924 heifer dust1927 madam1927 baloney1928 horse feathers1928 phonus-bolonus1929 rhubarb1929 spinach1929 toffeea1930 tomtit1930 hockey1931 phoney baloney1933 moody1934 cockalorum1936 cock1937 mess1937 waffle1937 berley1941 bull dust1943 crud1943 globaloney1943 hubba-hubba1944 pish1944 phooey1946 asswipe1947 chickenshit1947 slag1948 batshit1950 goop1950 slop1952 cack1954 doo-doo1954 cobbler1955 horse shit1955 nyamps1955 pony1956 horse manure1957 waffling1958 bird shit1959 codswallop1959 how's your father1959 dog shit1963 cods1965 shmegegge1968 pucky1970 taradiddle1970 mouthwash1971 wank1974 gobshite1977 mince1985 toss1990 arse1993 1913 E. T. Gleeson in Bulletin (San Francisco) 3 Mar. 13/5 McCarl has been heralded all along the line as a ‘busher’, but now it develops that this dope is very much to the ‘jazz’. 1917 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 6 Apr. 16 You meet a young lady and tell her how extremely well she is looking... Then she responds: ‘Jazz, old fellow, pure jazz! Shut it off and talk regular.’ 1918 Dial. Notes 5 25 Jazz, talk; ‘gas’. College students. 1930 E. Pound Draft of XXX Cantos vii. 27 Sham-Memphis columns, And beneath the jazz a cortex, a stiffness or stillness, Shell of the older house. 1958 H. Ellison Deadly Streets 56 What was this jazz about me talkin' to Fairchild. 1987 S. Stark Wrestling Season 78 Will you can it with the new car jazz? 2000 Punch (Nassau, Bahamas) 11 Dec. 27/3 (caption) Marketing. They feed us that Jazz, hopin' it'll sucker us into buyin' their CD. b. Something that one regards as hard to describe or understand; (more generally) ‘stuff’, ‘things’. Chiefly depreciative. ΚΠ 1953 D. Wallop Night Light iii. 153 What do you call that jazz, alpaca or something? 1958 ‘E. McBain’ Killer's Choice (1960) iii. 31 ‘How was school today, darling?’ ‘Oh, the same old jazz,’ Monica said. 1969 C. F. Burke God is Beautiful, Man (1970) 20 I asked one of the young men if he understood what had been read from the Bible. His response was that he ‘didn't get that jazz’. 1971 B. Malamud Tenants 165 I read all about that formalism jazz in the library and it's bullshit. 1995 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 20 Mar. (Guide) 10 It's like an army war game exercise—shooting the enemy and slogging it through rough terrain. Thankfully, there isn't any of that technical jazz that ‘enthusiasts’ enjoy so much. c. and all that jazz: and all that sort of thing; and stuff like that; and so on; et cetera. ΚΠ 1929 Washington Post 3 June 16/8 Combined with what threatekned [sic] to be merely another exploitation of the recklessness of modern youth there is a bit of high-power police stuff that partialy [sic] takes the curse off all that jazz.] 1956 G. Axelrod Will Success spoil Rock Hunter? I. 25 I ski in Switzerland—blue shadows on white snow and all that jazz. 1960 Punch 9 Mar. 345/1 Politics, world affairs, film stars' babies and all that jazz, the things that the adult world seems obsessed with, do not interest us at all. 1968 B. Turner Sex Trap ix. 69 Always been a good girl and all that jazz, but a bit stage-struck. 1972 J. Porter Meddler & her Murder x. 132 Come to identify the body..and all that jazz. 2000 I. Edward-Jones My Canapé Hell (2001) i. 23 We might, if you're lucky, put your photo on it, and all that jazz. 3. a. A type of popular music originating (esp. in ragtime and blues) among African Americans in the southern United States, typically performed by ensembles and broadly characterized by regular forceful rhythms, syncopated phrasing, modifications to traditional instrumental tone and pitch (such as the use of blue notes), and improvisatory soloing.Jazz has developed many distinctive subgenres: see acid jazz n., bebop n., Dixieland at Dixie n.² 1c, swing n.² 10b. For free jazz, modern jazz, progressive jazz, trad jazz, etc., see the first element. Cf. also cool adj. 2e and ragtime n.The influence of jazz on other musical genres is also reflected in the terms treated at Compounds 1b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > jazz > [noun] jazz1915 1915 Chicago Sunday Tribune 11 July viii. 8/1 The ‘blues’ had done it. The ‘jazz’ had put pep into the legs that had scrambled too long for the 5:15. 1915 Chicago Sunday Tribune 11 July viii. 8/1 ‘What are the blues?’ he asked gently. ‘Jazz!’ The young woman's voice rose high to drown the piano. 1921 Contemp. Rev. Jan. 53 The frank barbarism began its appeal with the nigger minstrels and has landed us in ‘jazz’. 1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song i. iv. 26 ‘The faster you can move your legs, the more you think you're dancing.’..‘You don't like jazz?’ queried the young lady. ‘I do not,’ said Soames. 1933 Fortune Aug. 47/2 Their use of ‘jazz’ includes both Duke Ellington's Afric brass and Rudy Vallée crooning I'm a Dreamer, Aren't We All? 1948 Pottstown (Pa.) Mercury 14 May 17 (advt.) Stan Kenton. Eight good instrumental and vocal examples of jazz in the progressive vein. 1955 D. Brubeck in N. Shapiro & N. Hentoff Hear me talkin' to Ya 361 When there is not complete freedom of the soloist, it ceases to be jazz... If it's spontaneous, it's going to be rough, not clean, but it's going to have the spirit which is the essence of jazz. 1966 Transition 27 45 The break with traditional and ‘thirties’ jazz was a severe one, affecting harmonies, dynamics, and the approach to improvisation. 1968 A. Dankworth Jazz 1 Most jazz is in the form of melodic or rhythmic variations upon a theme. The theme is usually a twelve-bar blues melody, the chorus of a popular dance-tune, or a specially composed theme. 1970 Melody Maker 12 Sept. 35/1 Much of the jazz presented by today's innovators avoids the free-flowing 4/4 or 3/4 essence in favour of a beat that is often heavier though not necessarily cruder. 1980 Times 1 July 15/4 Popular music, from jazz to rock, is crucial to twentieth century culture. 1990 Music Theory Spectrum 12 181 Taylor, Coleman, and John Coltrane helped to forge a new era in jazz, characterized by the introduction of harmonic, rhythmic, and timbral freedoms. 2006 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 16 Apr. (Features section) 12 The grown-ups would sit around listening to jazz and drinking wine. b. (a) A piece of jazz music (now rare); (b) spec. a passage of improvised music in a jazz performance (rare). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > passages in jazz jazz1918 break1926 chorus1926 stop time1929 tag1929 lick1932 riff1933 ride1935 release1936 sock chorus1936 rideout1939 screamer1940 stop chords1941 chase1942 stop chorus1942 mop1945 society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > [noun] > jazz piece jazz1918 1918 Independent (U.S.) 26 Oct. 126/1 Voices call insistently for a ‘hot jazz’, others, frowned upon as sentimentalists, urge ‘Annie Laurie’, still others demand ‘that rattling good march-thing’. 1919 Times 20 Jan. 11/3 The solo pieces had..a quite individual flavour—a ‘Cradle Song’ with a sort of Muscovite tune, followed by ‘the Chosen Tune’, rather of the ‘Londonderry’ type; then a Pastorale, alert and irresponsible, rambling and poetic, and ‘Dansons!’ a Jazz. 1920 Harvey's Weekly 24 July 14/2 That isn't a keynote; it's a jazz. 1921 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Jan. 50 All the latest popular hits..all this season's jolliest jazzes. 1926 A. Niles in W. C. Handy Blues 8 The notes..which follow this rest, fill in the following break, and themselves are called ‘the break’, or ‘the jazz’. 2006 B. Strong Bk. of Poems 62 With a trumpet in his hands, his feet would come alive And you could bop to his original jazzes, blues and jives. c. Any of various styles of dance performed to or associated with jazz music; spec. (a) (frequently with the) a ragtime dance (now rare); (b) a dance form having its roots in popular and theatrical dance and characterized especially by athletic movements and an emphasis on improvisation. Cf. jazz dance n. at Compounds 4.Quot. 1919² was erroneously dated 1909 in O.E.D. Suppl. (1976). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other popular 20th-century dances > [noun] mashed potato1747 bunny hug1912 chicken scratch1912 bunny-hugging1916 jazz1919 black bottom1925 shuffle1925 Mess Around1926 snake hips1933 Susie-Q1936 Lambeth Walk1937 bunny hop1938 bop1956 pony1961 Watusi1961 locomotion1962 mash potato1962 frug1964 hully gully1964 dancercise1967 pogo1977 moonwalking1980 slam dance1981 slam dancing1981 body-popping1982 b-boying1984 mosh1985 moshing1987 society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other dances > [noun] dance of Macabre?c1430 springc1450 lege de moya1529 bobc1550 lusty gallant1569 duret1613 fading1613 huckler1617 ground-measure1621 entry1631 slatter de pouchc1640 ballo1651 Irish trot1651 omnium gatheruma1652 clutterdepouch1652 upspring1654 passacaglia1659 shuffle1659 passacaille1667 flip-flap1676 chaconne1685 charmer1702 Cheshire-round1706 Louvre1729 stick dance1730 white joke1730 baby dance1744 Nancy Dawson1766 fricassee1775 bumpkin1785 Totentanz1789 Flora('s) dance1790 goombay1790 egg-dance1801 supper dance1820 Congo dance1823 slip-jig1829 bran-dance1833 roly-poly1833 Congo1835 mazy1841 furry1848 bull-dance1855 stampede1856 double-shuffling1859 frog dance1863 hokee-pokee1873 plait dance1876 slow dancing1884 snake dance1895 beast dance1900 soft-shoe1900 cakewalk1902 floral dance1911 snake dance1911 apache dance1912 grizzly bear1912 jazz dance1917 jazz dancing1917 jazz1919 wine-dance1920 camel-walk1921 furry dance1928 snake-dance1931 pas d'action1936 trance dancing1956 touch dance1965 hokey-cokey1966 moonwalk1969 moonwalking1983 Crip Walk1989 mapantsula1990 1919 Punch 12 Mar. 193/1 ‘Whitehall’, says a society organ, ‘has succumbed to the Jazz, the Fox-trot and the Bunny-hug.’ 1919 C. Stewart Uncle Josh in Society (gramophone-record) One lady asked me if I danced the jazz. 1919 ‘Monsieur Pierre’ How to Jazz 7 The Jazz is a three-step dance done to four-beat time. The three steps fall on the first three beats of the bar, the third being prolonged to last two beats, namely, the third and fourth. There are three distinct movements, which may be described as the Straight Jazz, the Side Jazz and the Jazz-Roll. 1920 San Antonio (Texas) Light 14 Nov. (headline) Eskimos dance jazz. 1921 W. Le Queux Secret Telephone iii. 48 I was thoroughly enjoying a delightful jazz with the child. 1960 Educ. Theatre Jrnl. 12 p. vi (advt.) School of Theatre and Dance..Harriette Ann Gray, dramatic dance, jazz. Mary Clare Sale, ballet. 1979 Dance Res. Jrnl. 11 60/1 Ballet, modern dance, jazz, tap, and International Folk Dance represent the West. 1995 Dance Connection Feb.–Mar. 33/2 Pointe work becomes elastically resilient in an effort to accommodate the hip thrusts of jazz or the floor-scraping movements of modern. 4. U.S. slang. Sexual intercourse; an instance of this. Cf. jazz v. 5, jazzing n. 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse ymonec950 moneOE meanc1175 manredc1275 swivinga1300 couplec1320 companyc1330 fellowred1340 the service of Venusc1350 miskissinga1387 fellowshipc1390 meddlinga1398 carnal knowinga1400 flesha1400 knowledgea1400 knowledginga1400 japec1400 commoning?c1425 commixtionc1429 itc1440 communicationc1450 couplingc1475 mellingc1480 carnality1483 copulation1483 mixturea1500 Venus act?1507 Venus exercise?1507 Venus play?1507 Venus work?1507 conversation?c1510 flesh-company1522 act?1532 carnal knowledge1532 occupying?1544 congression1546 soil1555 conjunction1567 fucking1568 rem in re1568 commixture1573 coiture1574 shaking of the sheets?1577 cohabitation1579 bedding1589 congress1589 union1598 embrace1599 making-outa1601 rutting1600 noddy1602 poop-noddy1606 conversinga1610 carnal confederacy1610 wapping1610 businessa1612 coition1615 doinga1616 amation1623 commerce1624 hot cocklesa1627 other thing1628 buck1632 act of love1638 commistion1658 subagitation1658 cuntc1664 coit1671 intimacy1676 the last favour1676 quiffing1686 old hat1697 correspondence1698 frigging1708 Moll Peatley1711 coitus1713 sexual intercourse1753 shagging1772 connection1791 intercourse1803 interunion1822 greens1846 tail1846 copula1864 poking1864 fuckeea1866 sex relation1871 wantonizing1884 belly-flopping1893 twatting1893 jelly roll1895 mattress-jig1896 sex1900 screwing1904 jazz1918 zig-zig1918 other1922 booty1926 pigmeat1926 jazzing1927 poontang1927 relations1927 whoopee1928 nookie1930 hump1931 jig-a-jig1932 homework1933 quickie1933 nasty1934 jig-jig1935 crumpet1936 pussy1937 Sir Berkeley1937 pom-pom1945 poon1947 charvering1954 mollocking1959 leg1967 rumpy-pumpy1968 shafting1971 home plate1972 pata-pata1977 bonking1985 legover1985 knobbing1986 rumpo1986 fanny1993 1918 J. Dos Passos Jrnl. 11 Nov. in Fourteenth Chron. (1973) 229 Talk is mainly of seasickness and the possibility of French jazz. 1928 in A. W. Read Lexical Evid. Folk Epigraphy Western N. Amer. (1935) 62 Take your girl out ther..in the bushes for a Jaz. 1934 J. T. Farrell Young Manhood Studs Lonigan xi. 174 You better come with me tonight, and get yourself a fast and furious jazz. 1950 A. Lomax Mister Jelly Roll (1952) 47 Winding Boy is a bit on the vulgar side. Let's see—how could I put it—means a fellow that makes good jazz with the women. 1994 Amer. Lit. Hist. 6 338 A well-known euphemism (jazz for copulation). B. adj. (chiefly attributive). 1. Suggestive of jazz (in various senses), jazzy; lively; sophisticated; unconventional. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] > smart gallantc1420 galliard1513 fine1526 trickly1580 pink1598 genteel1601 sparkful1605 sparkish1657 jaunty1662 spankinga1666 shanty1685 trig1725 smartish1738 distinguished1748 nobby1788 dashing1801 vaudy1805 swell1810 distingué1813 dashy1822 nutty1823 chic1832 slicked1836 flash1838 rakish1840 spiffy1853 smart1860 sassy1861 classy1870 spiffing1872 toffish1873 tony1877 swish1879 hep1899 toffy1901 hip1904 toppy1905 in1906 floozy1911 swank1913 jazz1917 ritzy1919 smooth1920 snappy1925 snazzy1931 groovy1937 what ho1937 gussy1940 criss1954 high camp1954 sprauncy1957 James Bondish1966 James Bond1967 schmick1972 designer1978 atas1993 as fine as fivepence- the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [adjective] > not conforming to standard behaviour irregular1395 unformalc1449 informalc1475 disordered1561 monstrous1568 odd1577 irregulate1579 exorbitant1613 free-spirited1613 exorbitating1632 inconformable1633 extravagant1650 inconform1659 eccentric1685 unconformable1702 outrageous1778 unconventional1840 erratic1841 kinky1844 Bohemian1846 radical1869 Bohemic1874 nonconforming1899 hard case1904 jazz1917 offbeat1922 deviant1935 deviate1945 oddball1945 left field1951 way out1955 boho1958 non-conformant1960 sideways1969 1917 Los Angeles Times 30 Apr. ii. 4/8 Polly Moran, queen of the jazz comediennes, is the high-power fun maker who keeps things moving at the rate of a million laughs a minute. 1919 Current Opinion Aug. 98/3 Boston is only slightly Jazz. 1922 Glasgow Herald 14 Dec. 5 He has some justification for using this jazz language. 1938 S. M. Bessie (title) Jazz journalism: the story of the tabloid newspapers. 1964 Washington Post 6 Sept. g5/7 The vocal takes on a slightly jazz sound with riffs and a minor emphasis. 1992 Atlantic Aug. 96/3 It may be Montaigne's most precious gift. That and his jazz spirit, his championing of change, growth, and the provisional nature of any statement. 2007 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 24 Aug. 56 With two sax players and a double bass they sound a bit jazz. 2. Of patterns, fabric, clothing, etc.: having a bold or fantastic design; marked by vivid or riotous colouring. ΚΠ 1919 Punch 7 May 357 Jazz stockings are the latest thing. 1923 Daily Mail 5 May 8 Jazz patterns in dress. 1927 R. H. Wilenski Mod. Movement in Art iii. 165 The ‘jazz’ curtains and sunshades..and the prevalence of bright tints in the theatre. 1930 J. Collier His Monkey Wife xiv. 198 Drawing a jazz silk dressing-gown about her shoulders, she went to the bathroom. 1957 H. Croome Forgotten Place 15 A jazz-patterned carpet on the floor. 2004 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune (Nexis) 17 Aug. e6 Students will be finishing more ‘jazz’ jackets and crazy patched vests from the previous semester. Compounds C1. attributive. a. General attributive, as jazz aficionado, jazz cult, jazz chord, jazz classic, jazz drumming, jazz great, jazz improvisation, jazz king, jazz legend, jazz-lover, jazz purist, jazz queen, etc.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately. ΚΠ 1917 N.Y. Times 8 Oct. 3/7 Rector's afternoon tea dance in the main dining room from 3 to 6..with Ted Lewis the Jazz King. 1918 Fort Wayne (Indiana) News & Sentinel 8 Apr. 6/2 Benny and Woods on the violin and piano provide some syncopation that gets the jazz lovers going. 1922 Lima (Ohio) News 15 Jan. 6/1 Many new vogues in music have been ushered in, none of them, however, full of life as the jazz cult. 1941 Times 9 Dec. 6/7 A ‘jazz classic’, the ‘St. Louis Blues’, so reorchestrated, had lost its native kick. 1946 Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times 16 June 2 b/2 A jazz purist, he scorns ‘commercial’ music. 1947 Penguin Music Mag. May 30 ‘You can't make a gentleman out of jazz’—a perfectly true statement, and one which all jazz-lovers will applaud. 1956 B. Edwards in S. Traill Play that Music vi. 59 There have been five major stages in jazz-drumming during the last three and a half decades. 1957 K. Rexroth Disengagement in New World Writing No. 11. 30 The innovations of bop, and of Parker particularly, have been vastly overrated by people unfamiliar with music, especially by that ignoramus,..the jazz aficionado. 1963 Music Educators Jrnl. 49 138 The essence of jazz improvisation is the spontaneous creation of a musical idea within a given chord structure. 1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 16 May a5 The MTS Daphne set sail for Havana with jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie, Earl (Fatha) Hines and 400 tourists on board. 1987 Music Educators Jrnl. 74 71/1 Certain fairly common jazz chords such as those that use raised or lowered ninths are left out. 1992 K. J. Bindas America's Musical Pulse iv. xviii. 189 Dizzy Gillespie, a living jazz legend, had similar problems a decade later playing bebop in Cab Calloway's black swing band. 2004 Contemp. Sociol. 33 456/2 Jazz aficionados may not like this view. 2006 AARP Mag. July–Aug. 18 The R&B star adds a passionate gospel undertow to..songs made famous by jazz queens. b. Designating types of music which combine elements of jazz and another musical genre, as jazz blues, jazz funk, jazz rap, jazz-rock, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > rock > types of jazz-rock1915 rockabilly1956 rockaboogie1956 hard rock1959 folk-rock1963 soft rock1965 surf rock1965 acid rock1966 raga rock1966 progressive rock1968 Christian rock1969 cock rock1970 punk1970 punk rock1970 space rock1970 swamp rock1970 techno-rock1971 glitter rock1972 grunge1973 glam-rock1974 pub rock1974 alternative rock1975 dinosaur rock1975 prog rock1976 AOR1977 New Wave1977 pomp rock1978 prog1978 anarcho-punk1979 stadium rock1979 oi1981 alt-rock1982 noise1982 noise-rock1982 trash1983 mosh1985 emo-core1986 Goth1986 rawk1987 emo1988 grindcore1989 darkwave1990 queercore1991 lo-fi1993 dadrock1994 nu metal1995 1915 Chicago Sunday Tribune 11 July viii. 8/1 Saxophone players since the advent of the ‘jazz blues’ have taken to wearing ‘jazz collars’. 1916 (title of song) Jazz rag. 1916 Daily Illini (Univ. Illinois) 4 Oct. 6 (advt.) The jazziest of all jaz [sic] tunes, played on the banjo, guitar, saxaphone, violin and piano. 1953 Redlands (Calif.) Daily Facts 30 Apr. 2/6 An unusual..jazz-bop album. 1970 Americana Ann. 578 The year [sc. 1969] was flooded with such new combinations as jazz-rock, folk-rock, and country-rock. 1974 New Musical Express 9 Nov. 26 A Beckified version of the currently ultra-flash jazz-funk stuff that the likes of Billy Cobham and Herbie Hancock are peddling these days. 1983 Times 30 July 7/4 Among the ranks of Britain's few jazz-blues organists. 1995 Unique June 64/2 One of the more satisfying house crossover genres, jazz house stomps in a club-friendly way. 2000 Big Issue 17 July 10/3 Those stonking jazz-funk sound-tracks with more chilli in them than soul-food. 2007 Time Out N.Y. 11 Jan. 125/1 We expect you're in for some superchopsy jazz-rock rather than anything remotely classical. c. (a) Designating or relating to instruments used in jazz music, as jazz banjo, jazz clarinet, jazz drum, jazz guitar, jazz piano, jazz trumpet, jazz saxophone, etc. ΚΠ 1917 Los Angeles Times 30 July ii. 1 (advt.) A combination of the sweet, dreamy tone of the Ukulele blended with that of the Tenor or ‘Jazz’ Banjo—it is simply irresistible! 1921 Tribune (Oakland, Calif.) 10 July x. 4/6 New $78.50 set jazz drums; sacrifice for $50 if taken at once. 1946 Notes 2nd Ser. 4 71 The rattling of tommy guns and the snarls of mobsters blending with the cry of the jazz clarinet. 1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) vi. 65 [High Society] has become a standard solo for jazz clarinet whenever the tune is played. 1963 A. Baraka Blues People xii. 197 Basie's efforts helped move jazz piano away from the older ‘stride’ style with its heavy insistence on an almost guitar-like left hand. 1984 Times 3 Mar. 17/2 Classic mainstream jazz trumpet from a veteran of the Count Basie orchestra. 1994 Early Music 22 177/2 He still teaches jazz saxophone at the Mussorgsky College of Music. 2005 Smithsonian Jan. 58/2 Peterson was still a teenager when he had what he calls his first ‘bruising’ with Art Tatum, considered by many the father of jazz piano. (b) Designating performers of jazz music, as jazz clarinetist, jazz drummer, jazz guitarist, jazz pianist, jazz player, jazz saxophonist, jazz soloist, jazz trumpeter, jazz vocalist, etc.See also jazz musician n., jazz singer n. at Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > jazz musician jazzbo1917 jazzer1917 jazzist1917 jazz musician1917 jazz player1917 jazzman1919 syncopator1926 cat1932 gate1937 jitterbug1937 1917 Sandusky (Ohio) Star-Jrnl. 10 June 6/4 Vocal Solo The Liberated Jazz Drummer or fun in a Junk Shop. 1924 Helena (Montana) Independent 31 Mar. 2/2 A jazz soloist..sang ‘Carolina in the Morning’ to radio fans 10,000 miles away in Melbourne, Australia. 1939 W. Hobson Amer. Jazz Music 30 Traditionalists accuse the jazz players..and the jazz men accuse the traditionalists. 1949 L. Feather Inside Be-bop i. 6 The single-note solo style was a complete departure from the pattern of solos in chords established by..conventional jazz guitarists. 1958 New Statesman 25 Jan. 102/3 Jazz-players and promoters..are so much more difficult to handle than the good old-fashioned pit and palais musicians. 1963 A. Baraka Blues People x. 146 Jelly Roll Morton, one of the first jazz pianists, was heavily influenced by the ragtime style. 1971 Times 7 July 16/7 (headline) Louis Armstrong. The greatest jazz trumpeter of his time. 1978 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 91 740 Other pieces are performed by jazz vocalists and female blues singers. 1984 Black Perspective in Music 12 51 The jazz saxophonist cultivates a raspy tone quality. 1996 Japan Times 29 Apr. 8/4 French jazz clarinetist Claude Luter presented the award. 2004 N.Y. Times 24 Oct. ii. 29/1 He apparently had no desire to learn how to improvise through chord changes, the most basic obligation of a jazz saxophonist. (c) Designating groups which perform jazz music, as jazz combo, jazz ensemble, jazz quartet, jazz quintet, jazz sextet, jazz trio, etc.See also jazz band n., jazz orchestra n. at Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1918 Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pa.) 11 Mar. 8/3 The Flemings are also a feature as is..a jazz trio that sings three separate songs at the same time. 1923 San Antonio (Texas) Express 2 Oct. 1/1 They have about as much privacy as the saxophone player in a jazz quartet while the four are jazzing. 1958 J. Steinbeck Once there was War p. xix One of the finest jazz combos I ever heard. 1973 Gramophone Jan. 1394/1 They know all about how brasses should phrase and fit together in a jazz ensemble. 1984 Times 15 Nov. 15/7 Has Miss Moreau..come across my early compositions at school for jazz quintet which were so difficult to play that the quintet disbanded rather than face another rehearsal? 2007 Guardian (Nexis) 9 Nov. 6 Self-proclaimed death-jazz act Soil & ‘Pimp’ Sessions..are in essence a relatively straight jazz sextet with an over-eager marketing department. C2. With adjectives and participles, as jazz-conscious, jazz-influenced, jazz-loving, jazz mad, jazz-minded, jazz-oriented, jazz-struck, jazz-tinged, etc. ΚΠ 1919 Fort Wayne (Indiana) News & Sentinel 21 Apr. 16/3 There are sixty-five men in the band and a surprising number of instruments to produce the music that set all France jazz mad. 1939 L. Jacobs Rise of Amer. Film xvi. 392 Pictures had taken over the attributes and point of view of a jazz-conscious world. 1947 R. de Toledano Frontiers of Jazz vii. 82 The jazz-struck kids who are today the core of the non-commercial white bands. 1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xvii. 201 Jazz-loving record buyers wore out the grooves. 1977 C. McKnight & J. Tobler Bob Marley ix. 121 Anderson's stinging jazz-tinged wah wah guitar takes the solo honours. 1986 Amer. Music 4 292 Copland was most frequently discussed as a jazz-influenced composer as opposed to a modernist or Americanist. 1995 P. Manuel in P. Manuel et al. Caribbean Currents 251 (Gloss.) Latin jazz , a predominantly instrumental, latter twentieth-century genre featuring jazz-oriented solos over Afro-Cuban rhythms. 2007 News & Rec. (Greensboro, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 26 Apr. b2 One of the smoothest bunches of jazz-minded misfits I've ever heard. C3. See also jazzman n. jazz ballet n. ΚΠ 1922 N.Y. Times 18 Jan. 21 (advt.) Carpenter's jazz ballet and other new ballets danced by Adolph Bolm. 1972 Times 16 May 14/8 We have a jazz ballet by a Canadian choreographer, set to music that uses a string quartet and a rock quartet. 1993 Sat. Night (Toronto) June 32/3 Jazz ballet took over the musicals, rock 'n' roll was too noisy, TV too small and too stingy with the required sound engineering. jazz band n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band > type of waits1298 consort1587 wait player1610 wind music1650 the fiddles1676 military band1775 German band1819 street band1826 brass band1834 promenade band1836 horn-band1849 pipe band1867 wind-band1876 Hungarian band1882 jazz band1916 jazz orchestra1916 big band1919 road band1922 Schrammel quartet1924 showband1926 spasm band1926 dance-band1927 marching band1930 name band1932 ork1933 silver band1933 sweet band1935 Schrammel orchestra1938 pop band1942 jug band1946 steel band1949 rehearsal band1957 skiffle band1957 ghost band1962 support band1969 support group1969 scratch band1982 1916 Chicago Herald 1 May 4/4 The shriek of women's drunken laughter rivaled the blatant scream of the imported New Orleans Jass Band, which never seemed to stop playing. 1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) vii. 71 The 101 Ranch, a cabaret which employed many jazz-bands, was particularly famous. 2005 Daily Tel. 1 Nov. 28/3 For those who have never encountered Macbeth, this perverse version..accompanied by the ghastly discordant noodlings of a three-piece contemporary jazz band, will be entirely incomprehensible. jazz club n. ΚΠ 1917 Spiker 25 Dec. 10/3 H. Williams, Rickard, Putney, Short, Hermann and Duncan were the Jazz Club entertainment committee. 1958 New Statesman 25 Jan. 102/3 Our native music..still flourishes nightly in the jazz-clubs, though best in those where musicians..like to drop in for a little drinking, gossiping, watching the dancers..and perhaps sitting in with the band. 1997 H. Kureishi Love in Blue Time 2 He knew the happenin' cinemas, jazz clubs, parties. jazz fan n. ΚΠ 1919 Tatler Apr. 2/1 And jazz! Ye gods! Perdition simply yawns for the jazz fan! 1928 Chicago Defender 28 Jan. 3 (advt.) Every jazz fan will want this new February record. 1958 D. Halperin in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz xx. 241 Calling the young man..a jazz-fan would be off-centre: he is, rather, a jazz convert. 2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Sept. b9/1 Her father, a jazz fan, played June Christy's recording of ‘Great Scot’. jazz festival n. ΚΠ 1919 Indianapolis Sunday Star 16 Nov. v. 3/1 Here's a real jazz festival, introducing the world's champion girl trap drummer. 1959 ‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene xi. 184 ‘Jazz festivals’—in Newport, Conn., in Nice, Cannes, San Remo and other European holiday resorts. 2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 4 May ii. 29/4 Rock promoters have learned quite a bit from long-running events like jazz festivals. jazz joint n. ΚΠ 1920 San Antonio (Texas) Evening News 3 Dec. (Home ed.) 11/3 Fatty Arbuckle in a Mont Marie jazz joint where he was greeted by cheering audiences. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §366/4 Dance hall,..jazz joint. 1996 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Oct. 218 The same issue [of the magazine] introduced a new term, lifted from the lingo of jazz joints: ‘cool’. jazz land n. ΚΠ 1917 Warren (Pa.) Evening Mirror 11 Sept. 5/4 Sam Sing may become a dancing teacher and by interpreting jazz chopstick arias soon gain a competence and return to Jazz land and live happily ever afterwards. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §578/2 Jazzland, the world of jazz. 2000 Wired Feb. 190/4 Petrucciani's crisp, bluesy style and his knack for lyrical improv will be missed in jazzland. jazz music n. ΚΠ 1916 Chicago Chem. Bull. Nov. 155/1 Boisterous ‘jass’ music is played at the doors of our assembly rooms. 1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? iii. 46 It made me realize again how true jazz music was, how it echoed everything that was churning inside us. 1973 Listener 19 Apr. 522/2 The excitement in jazz music is usually concerned with nerve. 2003 G. Burn North of Eng. Home Service (2004) iv. 136 They blew twenty-five shillings in the Potomac listening to Claes's Claepigeons playing a kind of boop-de-boop jazz music that wasn't strictly to either of their tastes. jazz musician n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > jazz musician jazzbo1917 jazzer1917 jazzist1917 jazz musician1917 jazz player1917 jazzman1919 syncopator1926 cat1932 gate1937 jitterbug1937 1917 Sun (N.Y.) 5 Aug. iii. 3/7 The jazz musicians and their auditors have the most rhythmic aggressiveness. 1958 R. Horricks in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz ix. 117 The legendary Art Tatum loved to jam with the resident jazz musicians. 2004 S. Dudley Calypso Music in Trinidad iii. 47 Jazz musicians will recognize the second half of this chord progression as ‘rhythm changes’ named for the George Gershwin song ‘I Got Rhythm’. jazz opera n. ΚΠ 1918 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 8 Dec. 4/4 A jazz opera with..an all star cast. 1970 New Yorker 29 Aug. 22/2 Recently, I [sc. Rolf Liebermann] commissioned a jazz opera, because I think that is a way to make contact with..young people. 1999 BBC Music Mag. Apr. 51/2 When Ellington died on 24 May 1974 he had just completed a jazz opera. jazz orchestra n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band > type of waits1298 consort1587 wait player1610 wind music1650 the fiddles1676 military band1775 German band1819 street band1826 brass band1834 promenade band1836 horn-band1849 pipe band1867 wind-band1876 Hungarian band1882 jazz band1916 jazz orchestra1916 big band1919 road band1922 Schrammel quartet1924 showband1926 spasm band1926 dance-band1927 marching band1930 name band1932 ork1933 silver band1933 sweet band1935 Schrammel orchestra1938 pop band1942 jug band1946 steel band1949 rehearsal band1957 skiffle band1957 ghost band1962 support band1969 support group1969 scratch band1982 1915 Chicago Examiner 22 May 17/5 (advt.) The original jad orchestra for dancing.] 1916 San Francisco Chron. 28 Aug. 2 (advt.) Techau Tavern... The Jazz Orchestra, under the leadership of Mr. George Gould, San Francisco's newest and most sensational find, for the dance lovers. 1925 Scribner's Mag. July 45/1 The faint echo of a jazz orchestra in the background. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §576/27 Jazz King, Paul Whiteman, jazz orchestra leader. 1995 Grand Royal No. 2. 29/2 I've heard Dixon leading Free Jazz orchestras into sonic symphonic heavens. Very hardcore. jazz record n. ΚΠ 1917 Indianapolis Star 7 Nov. 4 (advt.) Another Jazz record that has all the old noises and a few new ones added. 1923 H. Crane Let. 5 Dec. (1965) 159 We had a Victrola... Lots of jazz records, etc. 1999 New Statesman 8 Nov. 42/2 Jazz records have often been defined not so much by their players as by their labels. jazz scene n. ΚΠ 1922 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 20 Aug. (Accent Mag.) 8/5 Streatside Eatery Jazz Scene, Wednesday and Thursday; 8 p.m. 1969 Gandalf's Garden iv. 9/1 I was originally on the jazz scene and in a terrible state. 2006 Prospect Aug. 5/2 Here in Oxford's jazz scene..understanding such basics as chord sequences and the cycle of fifths is as essential as ever. jazz singer n. ΚΠ 1916 Chicago Defender 30 Sept. 3 (caption) Estelle Harris..appears at the Grand Theater next week with her jass singers and dancers. 1927 (title of film) The jazz singer. 1929 A. Huxley Do what you Will 57 He is employed as a jazz-singer on the music-hall stage. 1969 Daily Tel. 21 Apr. 17/7 No hard boundaries exist to separate jazz singers from run-of-the-mill night club performers. 2005 Metro 26 Sept. (London ed.) 34/5 He is the Starbucks of music: a so-called jazz singer for people who hate jazz. jazz song n. ΚΠ 1917 Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pa.) 30 Oct. 6/2 Lew Lewis is a really funny blackface comedian and his jazz song is a hummer. 1923 H. Crane Let. 9 May (1965) 133 Marvelous jazz songs, jokes, etc. 1996 Denver Post 16 June a2/3 Her repertory encompassed show tunes, jazz songs, novelties.., bossa nova, and even opera. jazz tune n. ΚΠ 1917 Chicago Sunday Tribune 19 Aug. i. 16/6 (headline) Hotel La Salle stops playing of jazz tunes. 1960 Amer. Q. 12 505 This is a jazz tune rather than a popular song made over into jazz. 2006 Time Out N.Y. 30 Nov. 94/4 Expect everything from 78 rpm jazz tunes to obscure fuzz-rock. C4. jazz age n. (frequently with capital initials) a period regarded as characterized by the popularity of jazz; spec. (frequently with reference to the United States) the period between the end of the First World War (1918) and the Great Depression of the 1930s, which was marked by economic prosperity, and dynamic cultural and social change (cf. jazz era n.). ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > other historical periods antiquityc1375 Christian antiquity1577 the days of ignorance1652 the time of ignorance1652 dark ages1656 Lower Empire1668 the age of reason1792 Scythism1793 grand siècle1811 the Age of Enlightenment1825 the Hundred Days1827 Tom and Jerry days1840 regency1841 industrial age1843 Régence1845 viking age1847 ignorance1867 renascence1868 Renaissance1872 gilded age1874 jazz era1919 jazz age1920 post-war1934 steam age1941 postcolonialism1955 information age1960 1920 Dunkirk (N.Y.) Evening Observer 23 Nov. 2/1 We are living in a jazz age and I wonder if a jazz church ought not to be the next development. 1922 F. S. Fitzgerald (title) Tales of the jazz age. 1925 J. Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer iii. v. 391 This young woman..led away by the temptations of cruel and voracious men and the excitement and wickedness of what has been too well named, the jazz age. 1959 T. Griffith Waist-high Culture (1960) iii. 31 In the years between the Armistice and the stock-market crash, came the period we used to call..the Jazz Age. 1999 D. Haslam Manchester, Eng. ii. 62 Married women, especially, had been invested with too many mundane responsibilities to enjoy the Jazz Age. jazz baby n. (chiefly with reference to the 1920s) a devotee of jazz; esp. a flapper, a fashionable young woman interested in jazz music and dancing, and frequently regarded as somewhat dissolute. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [noun] > of jazz > girl jazz baby1919 1919 B. Merrill Jazz Baby (sheet music) I'm a Jazz baby, I want to be jazzing all the time. 1920 C. Bayha Jazz Babies' Ball (sheet music) 4 Sweet Jazz babies short and tall, Will be moochin' round the hall. 1932 Circleville (Ohio) Herald 17 June I couldn't stand one of those jazz babies that anybody could get, and no girl on your level would want to marry me. 1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media (1967) ii. xxxi. 348 Baseball..will always remain a symbol of the era of the hot mommas, jazz babies..and the fast buck. 1987 Amer. Music 5 455 Barnet, like many jazz babies who grew up in the 1920s, parlayed his tenor saxophone, raccoon coat, and taste for la dolce vita into a career of hot music and hot living. 1989 Dance Chron. 12 313 The nondrinking, nonsmoking young bride lapses into a thoroughgoing jazz baby. 2003 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 14 Dec. 80/1 (heading) More than 350 fashion icons, ragtraders, promoters, jazz babies, cool dudes and fresh-as-tomorrow faces frolicked at the Dally's Model Agency Christmas party. jazz chant n. (in English language teaching) a sequence of rhythmic phrases chanted by students in unison, often with accompanying music, as an exercise for learning intonation and cadence.In quot. 1921: a poem employing rhythm and sound in a manner likened to jazz music. ΚΠ 1921 Standard Jan. 130/1 It seems to us as absurd to find beauty in the Spoon River Anthology, in Chicago Poems, in the jazz chants of Vachel Lindsay, as it is unjust to expect beauty. 1978 C. Graham (title) Jazz chants. 1984 Eng. Jrnl. 73 44/1 I use any method that works: audio-lingual dialogue memorization, dictations,..jazz chants, [etc.]. 2004 Childhood Educ. (Nexis) 22 Dec. 104 To help children learn intonation and pronunciation of the new language, jazz chants..can be accompanied with clapping, marching, and drumming. jazz cigarette n. slang (originally and chiefly British) a marijuana cigarette. ΚΠ 1992 Herald (Glasgow) 19 Dec. 2/2 ‘Anybody fancy rolling up some jazz cigarettes?’.. So they put some records on and got themselves fine and mellow. 2002 H. Ritchie Friday Night Club (2003) iii. v. 265 Hey, that a jazz cigarette you're smoking? jazz critic n. a person who reviews recordings and performances of jazz music, esp. professionally.In quot. 1919: a book critic who writes in a style likened to jazz music. ΚΠ 1919 Dial 23 Aug. 155 A jazz critic... As for the English in which this book is written, it is indescribable... We can hear its counterpart already in the performances of any Jazz band. 1925 Washington Post 15 Mar. (Mag. section) 3 (caption) The jazz critic says, ‘That's a wow.’ 2003 J. Murray Jazz x. 202 The music (and some jazz critics protested it wasn't even that) moved ‘forward’, but only as echoing, resonant, hypnotic amplitudes. jazz dance n. = sense A. 3c. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other dances > [noun] dance of Macabre?c1430 springc1450 lege de moya1529 bobc1550 lusty gallant1569 duret1613 fading1613 huckler1617 ground-measure1621 entry1631 slatter de pouchc1640 ballo1651 Irish trot1651 omnium gatheruma1652 clutterdepouch1652 upspring1654 passacaglia1659 shuffle1659 passacaille1667 flip-flap1676 chaconne1685 charmer1702 Cheshire-round1706 Louvre1729 stick dance1730 white joke1730 baby dance1744 Nancy Dawson1766 fricassee1775 bumpkin1785 Totentanz1789 Flora('s) dance1790 goombay1790 egg-dance1801 supper dance1820 Congo dance1823 slip-jig1829 bran-dance1833 roly-poly1833 Congo1835 mazy1841 furry1848 bull-dance1855 stampede1856 double-shuffling1859 frog dance1863 hokee-pokee1873 plait dance1876 slow dancing1884 snake dance1895 beast dance1900 soft-shoe1900 cakewalk1902 floral dance1911 snake dance1911 apache dance1912 grizzly bear1912 jazz dance1917 jazz dancing1917 jazz1919 wine-dance1920 camel-walk1921 furry dance1928 snake-dance1931 pas d'action1936 trance dancing1956 touch dance1965 hokey-cokey1966 moonwalk1969 moonwalking1983 Crip Walk1989 mapantsula1990 1917 N.Y. Times 8 Mar. 9 (advt.) Original ‘jazz’ dance and Cuben Danzon..in America's most beautiful ballroom. 1919 Punch 30 Apr. 333/3 An early bather was seen executing the Jazz-dance on the beach at Ventnor on Easter Monday. 1963 Spectator 27 Dec. 852/1 In America the jazz-dance..has a validity as..a pop-art expression of one side of the national culture. 2006 Time Out N.Y. 16 Feb. 54/2 This specific brand of ‘-ercise’ combines elements of jazz dance, resistance training, Pilates..and other programs to create a fitness experience for every age and level. jazz dancer n. a person who performs jazz dance. ΚΠ 1917 Los Angeles Times 18 Sept. ii. 4/3 A bunch of hectic and inflamed jazz dancers would make the bleachers at a big college game seem..peaceful. 2006 B. P. McCutchen Teaching Dance as Art in Educ. iii. 45/1 Are you a ballerina, a jazz dancer, a Bharata Natyam dancer? jazz dancing n. = jazz dance n.; the action of performing this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other dances > [noun] dance of Macabre?c1430 springc1450 lege de moya1529 bobc1550 lusty gallant1569 duret1613 fading1613 huckler1617 ground-measure1621 entry1631 slatter de pouchc1640 ballo1651 Irish trot1651 omnium gatheruma1652 clutterdepouch1652 upspring1654 passacaglia1659 shuffle1659 passacaille1667 flip-flap1676 chaconne1685 charmer1702 Cheshire-round1706 Louvre1729 stick dance1730 white joke1730 baby dance1744 Nancy Dawson1766 fricassee1775 bumpkin1785 Totentanz1789 Flora('s) dance1790 goombay1790 egg-dance1801 supper dance1820 Congo dance1823 slip-jig1829 bran-dance1833 roly-poly1833 Congo1835 mazy1841 furry1848 bull-dance1855 stampede1856 double-shuffling1859 frog dance1863 hokee-pokee1873 plait dance1876 slow dancing1884 snake dance1895 beast dance1900 soft-shoe1900 cakewalk1902 floral dance1911 snake dance1911 apache dance1912 grizzly bear1912 jazz dance1917 jazz dancing1917 jazz1919 wine-dance1920 camel-walk1921 furry dance1928 snake-dance1931 pas d'action1936 trance dancing1956 touch dance1965 hokey-cokey1966 moonwalk1969 moonwalking1983 Crip Walk1989 mapantsula1990 1917 Los Angeles Times 18 Sept. ii. 4/3 Jazz dancing is a cross between an explosion and a foot race and is another of the crimes indirectly traceable to the jazz band. 1963 Spectator 27 Dec. 852/1 The so-called jazz-dancing which has insidiously crept into our ballet repertory. 1999 D. Haslam Manchester, Eng. 290 The defenders of high culture considered short skirts and jazz dancing as evidence of spiritual emptiness. jazz era n. (also with capital initials) = jazz age n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > other historical periods antiquityc1375 Christian antiquity1577 the days of ignorance1652 the time of ignorance1652 dark ages1656 Lower Empire1668 the age of reason1792 Scythism1793 grand siècle1811 the Age of Enlightenment1825 the Hundred Days1827 Tom and Jerry days1840 regency1841 industrial age1843 Régence1845 viking age1847 ignorance1867 renascence1868 Renaissance1872 gilded age1874 jazz era1919 jazz age1920 post-war1934 steam age1941 postcolonialism1955 information age1960 1919 Eng. Rev. Dec. 495 For Mr. Moore to withdraw in the full blast of the jazz era does seem rather..backwards. 1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues ix. 138 The Jazz Era's heyday had been here and gone. 2003 D. A. Jasen Tin Pan Alley 330 The two would write many of the greatest hits of the jazz era. jazz fusion n. any of various types of music that combine elements of jazz and another musical genre; spec. = jazz-rock at Compounds 1b; cf. fusion n. Additions. ΚΠ 1938 Atlanta Const. 14 May Sunday Mag. 8/1 There’s quite a lot to these intriguing numbers which are a sort of fusion of jazz and the classics. 1968 N.Y. Amsterdam News 22 June 18/4 The group’s interest in jazz-rock fusion is evident in long solo and group improvisations.] 1976 Washington Post 1 Mar. b9/3 The music generated, representative of the latest wave of jazz fusions, might well be called boogie jazz. 1976 N.Y. Times 29 Aug. d15/5 Picking a careful path between jazz fusion and straight jazz, New Audiences has managed to line up three concerts for the fall season. 2006 Loaded Dec. 53/2 Neither a piano, nor a synthesiser, the advent of Keytars meant jazz fusion could finally be sexy. jazz hand n. a gesture in which the hand is held with the palm facing forward and the fingers splayed (often while waving rapidly back and forth), usually performed as part of a dance routine; chiefly in plural. ΚΠ 1978 J. Missett & D. Z. Meilach Jazzercise 30 Jazz Hands are strong! 1990 San Francisco Chron. 10 Sept. b4/2 Lift your chins. When you hit out in your ‘T’, keep your elbow up strong, jazz hands. Pop your hip. 2000 M. Albo Hornito 46 A bunch of faggy guys in sequins..doing Bob Fosse jazz-hand routines. 2007 Times (Nexis) 8 Oct. (T2 section) 12 I love the fact that it's not Oklahoma, where you end on some big song and dance number doing your ‘jazz hands’. jazz poem n. a poem having stylistic features suggestive of jazz, such as syncopated rhythms or an improvisatory feel; (also) a poem recited or song sung to the accompaniment of jazz. ΚΠ 1917 Warren (Pa.) Evening Mirror 11 Sept. 5/3 The jazz poem tone that sounds like a cross between a boiler shop and a foundry symphony, will..find expression in the dance. 1923 M. Cowley Let. 8 Nov. in Sel. Corr. K. Burke & M. Cowley (1988) 147 I wrote a jazz poem in jazzy prose and swore I should write no more verse. 1960 Guardian 21 Nov. 7/7 A ‘jazz poem’ read at a recital of modern poetry and jazz. 2005 Observer (Nexis) 2 Oct. (Review section), 11 Backed by Nina Simone-like piano, Odetta made a beseeching jazz poem of 'Mr Tambourine Man'. jazz poetry n. poetry of this sort. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > recitation of poetry > [noun] > recitation accompanied by jazz or other music jazz poetry1919 jazzetry1959 dub1976 1919 Life 27 Feb. 345 We have Jazz Poetry, or free verse, and Jazz Dancing, which is the free verse of motion. 1959 Listener 26 Mar. 567/3 In the current craze for jazz poetry a mistaken attempt is made to bend the verse to the last of the music. 2007 Boston (Mass.) Herald (Nexis) 10 June 33 Often the night felt like a jazz poetry reading. jazz tap n. a style of tap dancing performed to jazz music or rhythms; a dance in this style. ΚΠ 1936 Chicago Defender 8 Feb. 7/6 First to be introduced was..Gloria Jackson, who did a jazz tap. 1971 Los Angeles Times 16 May h7/1 (heading) Park offers dance class in jazz tap. 2000 D. Kirby House on Boulevard St. (2007) 111 You will definitely wake to Emily's senescent jazz-tap routines. Derivatives ˈjazz-like adj. ΚΠ 1920 Christian Sci. Monitor 17 June 14/4 The chargers of the Horse Guards and Lancers showed remarkable proficiency in their new jazz-like caracole around the arena. 1923 K. P. Harrington Catullus & his Infl. ii. 48 Catullus has left us his amazing mastery of the baffling Galliambics, in the unique Attis, where we can hear, as it were, the jazz-like echo of the drums and cymbals. 1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 23 Jan. It opened with a careful and precise exploration of the harmonies the four instruments could achieve in an atonal construction, but then moved into a swinging jazz-like tribute. 1999 Guardian 21 Aug. (Travel section) 3/1 A series of jazz-like improvisations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022). jazzv. Brit. /dʒaz/, U.S. /dʒæz/ Forms: see jazz n. and adj. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: jazz n. Etymology: < jazz n. With sense 3 compare earlier jazzer n. Originally U.S. slang. 1. transitive. U.S. slang. To make a mess of, to ruin; to confuse; to interfere with. Usually with up. Now rare.Quot. 1914 is in the context of a baseball game; cf. note at jazz n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > [verb (intransitive)] > disturb reception by intrusion interfere1904 jazz1914 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > confuse or disorder [verb (transitive)] disparplea1400 rufflea1400 mingle-mangle1549 confound1553 jumblea1575 barbulye1588 Babelize1600 embroil1603 puddlea1616 confuse1630 jargogle1692 mishmash1694 to make a mull of1821 inturbidatea1834 bedevil1844 to ball up1884 jazz1914 scramble1927 balls1947 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > be unskilled in [verb (transitive)] > bungle botch1530 bungle1530 mumble1588 muddle1605 mash1642 bumble?1719 to fall through ——1726 fuck1776 blunder1805 to make a mull of1821 bitch1823 mess1823 to make a mess of1834 smudge1864 to muck up1875 boss1887 to make balls of1889 duff1890 foozle1892 bollocks1901 fluff1902 to make a muck of1903 bobble1908 to ball up1911 jazz1914 boob1915 to make a hash of1920 muff1922 flub1924 to make a hat of1925 to ass up1932 louse1934 screw1938 blow1943 to foul up1943 eff1945 balls1947 to make a hames of1947 to arse up1951 to fuck up1967 dork1969 sheg1981 bodge1984 1914 San Francisco Chron. 7 May 10 (heading) Venice Tigers step further out in front as Seals lose. C. S. Smith almost jazzes game cinched by Venice. 1917 K. MacLeish Let. Sept. in G. L. Rossano Price of Honor (1991) 23 My orders were all jazzed up, but..they should be here in five or six days. 1929 R. Lynd & H. Lynd Middletown 380 The follies of education and science have jazzed up the whole works, until it takes a man considerable time to find out what is true. 1961 H. Ellison Memos from Purgatory 110 That socking-around I'd gotten had jazzed my brains completely. 1972 R. Barrett Lovomaniacs 421 Sorry, kid, something jazzed up the phone at this end. 2. a. transitive. To play (music) in the style of jazz; to introduce elements of jazz style into the performance of (a piece of music, etc.); to play in a lively or syncopated manner. Also: to play (an instrument) in a jazz style. In later use frequently with up. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform (music) [verb (transitive)] > specific style or technique squeak1577 tinkle1582 divide1590 shake1611 slur1746 da capo1764 rattlea1766 to run over ——1789 skirl1818 spread?1822 develop1838 arpeggio1864 propose1864 recapitulate1873 jazz1915 lilt1916 jazzify1927 thump1929 schmaltz1936 belt1947 stroke1969 funkify1973 scratch1984 scratch-mix1985 1915 Chicago Sunday Tribune 11 July viii. 8/1 ‘Blue’ Marion sat down and jazzed the jazziest streak of jazz ever. 1917 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 20 June 10/5 Any ordinary ragtime piece can be Jazzed. Of course, one might not be able to recognize the piece during and after the rendition, but it can be done. 1919 E. Scott All about Latest Dances 76 The nigger bands at home ‘jazz’ a tune; that is to say, they slur the notes, they syncopate, and each instrument puts in a lot of little fancy bits on its own. 1934 Hound & Horn 7 599 The saxaphone..can be as ‘hot’ as the clarinet when it is ‘jazzed up’. 1965 Listener 20 May 738/2 He had jazzed up Weill's music in the modern American manner. 1993 F. Collymore RSVP to Mrs Bush-Hall 131 The steel band seemed to be jazzing up some of the light classicals. 2000 G. Santoro Myself when I am Real (2001) vi. 111 Popular pianist Hazel Scott..had a reputation for ‘jazzing the classics’. b. intransitive. To play jazz music. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] > perform specific type of music serenade1671 prelude1680 fugue1783 pastoralize1828 preludize1829 symphonize1833 ran-tan1866 counterpoint1875 rag1896 ragtime1908 jazz1916 rock1931 jivec1938 bop1947 blow1949 rock-and-roll1956 skiffle1957 hip-hop1983 1916 Variety 1 Sept. 28/1 Coatless but whiteshirted white musicians who ‘jassed’ away at the raggedy, foxtrotty numbers. 1917 Janesville (Wisconsin) Daily Gaz. 28 June 2/2 An orchestra from the First Regimental band ‘jazzed’ in cabaret order on certain occasions during the program. 1917 Washington Post 5 Aug. (Mag. section) 5/2 It's no jazz band... These guys all play legit. I don't think any one of them ever tried to jazz in his life. 1934 S. Spender Vienna ii. 23 Where radio crazily jazzes. 1993 Village Voice (N.Y.) 20 Apr. 70/2 Her composed works cover an elegant logic with a soft, Feldman-esque veneer. But she can jazz, too. c. intransitive. To dance jazz (jazz n. 3c). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > dances to specific popular music > [verb (intransitive)] rag1896 jazz1919 rock1931 juke1933 boogie1944 boogaloo1966 to rock out1966 skank1973 disco1976 hip-hop1983 1919 Punch 23 Apr. 318/1 She did not ask whether I could jazz, mainly, I think, because I had already danced with her. 1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover xvii. 313 Poor Connie was rather unhappy. She wouldn't jazz, because she simply couldn't plaster her stomach against some ‘creature's’ stomach. 1966 ‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 19 Chester..waltzed, jazzed, did Catherine wheels, [etc.]. 1999 D. Haslam Manchester, Eng. iii. 65 Going to the dance-halls, fox-trotting and jazzing was regarded with a great deal of suspicion by older people. 3. a. transitive. To excite or thrill (a person); to stimulate or intoxicate; to agitate. Also with up. Frequently in passive. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > exciting > excite [verb (transitive)] astirc1000 stir?c1225 araisec1374 entalentc1374 flamec1380 reara1382 raisec1384 commove1393 kindlea1400 fluster1422 esmove1474 talent1486 heavec1540 erect?1555 inflame1560 to set on gog1560 yark1565 tickle1567 flesh1573 concitate1574 rouse1574 warmc1580 agitate1587 spirit1598 suscitate1598 fermentate1599 nettle1599 startle1602 worka1616 exagitate1621 foment1621 flush1633 exacuatea1637 ferment1667 to work up1681 pique1697 electrify1748 rattle1781 pump1791 to touch up1796 excite1821 to key up1835 to steam up1909 jazz1916 steam1922 volt1930 whee1949 to fire up1976 geek1984 1916 Collier's 28 Dec. 15/3 Take it from me, I'll jaz em up an' make them two-dollar birds like it. 1917 Ogden (Utah) Standard 7 July 2/2 We have never gotten jazzed up on any of Doc's pills [i.e. his ‘bon mots’]. 1918 Red Watch Mark U.S.S. Leviathan 27 Nov. Liverpool girls..were called ‘Duckies’ by the Leviathan seamen... ‘As a lady-killer, Mackintosh..takes belts, medals and cups... He gets the duckies all jazzed up before they can get their second wind.’ 1920 H. Wiley Wildcat xviii. 194 When I aims to git jazzed up I aims to get jazzed up. 1967 Surfabout 4 iii. 33/2 I could hardly sleep at all; man, I was jazzed just listening to the hissing swells as they smoothly broke through the night. 1988 J. Ellroy Big Nowhere xxix. 292 Cocteau never jazzed me. Neither did Salvador Dali or any of those guys. 1990 K. Vonnegut Hocus Pocus xxvi. 190 They were immune to the kilovolts of pride the Elders jazzed their brains with... They knew exactly how clumsy and dumb they were. 2004 Screen Internat. 25 June 12/4 I see a lot of my clients getting all jazzed because they hear about things that I know they can't have. b. transitive. To enliven; to render more interesting, exciting, or vibrant. Usually with up. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > spectacular, sensational, or dramatic display > make sensational or dramatic [verb (transitive)] theatricize1852 sensationalize1863 jazz1917 1917 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 6 Apr. 16 Her hair dresser is consuming an unexpectedly long time in completing her coiffure. So she says, briskly, ‘O, jazz it up somehow! I gotta git a 5 o'clock furry.’ 1917 Sun (N.Y.) 5 Aug. iii. 3/6 In the old plantation days when the slaves were having one of their rare holidays and the fun languished some West Coast African would cry out, ‘Jaz her up’, and this would be the cue for fast and furious fun... Curiously enough the phrase ‘Jaz her up’ is a common one to-day in vaudeville and on the circus lot. 1919 Amer. Mag. Nov. 69/1 For ways that is dark and tricks which is vain, the daughters of Eve is peculiar, to jazz up a line of Bret Harte's. 1923 Daily Mail 27 Mar. 8 My colour scheme is rather fetching, don't you think? X—a famous artist—jazzed it up for me. 1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey ii. iii, in Mod. Comedy (1929) 112 Winifred had jazzed the Empire foundations of her room with a superstructure more suitable to the age. 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Oct. 557/3 The ‘honesty’ and the depth of the rejection here carry no conviction and the attempt to jazz it up leads Mr. Sillitoe where we would expect it to lead him—to bluster and sentimentality. 1974 Guardian 13 June 10/5 He..jazzes the mixture up with a series of film-makers' cliches that one can only describe as stylised film school. 2006 Sydney Morning Herald 20 May 20/1 With attendance plummeting and youthful organists hard to find, some British churches have tried a new karaoke-like machine called Hymnal Plus as a means of jazzing up stale services. c. transitive. Originally Aeronautics. To open (the throttle of a vehicle) so as to cause the engine to accelerate; to rev (an engine). ΚΠ 1919 Power Plant Engin. 15 Mar. 290/1 If the pilot finds himself with a suddenly stopped propellor or ‘dead stick’, he will ordinarily first do a nose dive, ‘jazzing’ the throttle meanwhile, to see if the tremendous blast of air on the propeller will start the motor. 1944 H. Brown Walk in Sun vii. 71 It came slowly for a motor-cycle. The rider was obviously having trouble with the rutty road. He jazzed his motor, modulated it, and then jazzed it again. 1961 Atlantic Monthly (Electronic ed.) Sept. I would dip in, then hold the plane's nose up in a near stall and jazz the engine to send the wash churning behind it. 2006 J. F. Boone Mark Martin 81 Once the bike is moving, jazzing the throttle will only light up the rear tire, not whip the bike to the right. 4. intransitive. To move or act in a vigorous, wild, or spirited manner. Also in extended use. to jazz around: to waste time; to mess about, fool around. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > bodily movement > move the body or a member [verb (intransitive)] > move grotesquely fantasticize1603 jazz1917 1917 E. Hemingway Let. 26 Oct. (2011) I. 56 Carl Edgar and I jazz forth with Frequency. 1918 F. Hunt Blown in by Draft vi. 143 Ole Hen Sauser..started, walking up and down the black and white ivories until he had the brown box rocking and swaying and jazzing like eight electric pianos. 1918 Dial. Notes 5 25 To jazz. 1. To talk to kill time. 2. To walk about to kill time. Rare. ‘I jazzed around all forenoon.’ 1922 Dial. Notes 5 142 You mustn't expect to pass your quizzes if you keep jazzing around like this. 1923 Daily Mail 18 Apr. 8 There are a good many present-day books that just give the reader a view of the protagonists jazzing across the pages in a vivid pattern of action, passion or crime. 1935 G. Blake Shipbuilders ix. 257 Rita jazzed complacently back to the bed and laid Wee Mirren in her place. 1958 J. Kesson White Bird Passes vi. 92 ‘It all happened so quick,’ Poll agreed. ‘That you still kind of expect her to come jazzing through the causeway, acting the goat, the way she used to.’ 1993 Independent 23 Jan. (Mag.) 21/1 To keep the programme jazzing in unexpected directions he'd stand off-stage semaphoring a series of customised hand signals. 2001 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 11 Apr. 1 In those days Dowling Street..was vibrant, with restaurants, beer lounges, pool halls..and people jazzing around on the street late at night. 5. transitive. U.S. slang. To have sexual intercourse with. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse playOE to do (also work) one's kindc1225 bedc1315 couple1362 gendera1382 to go togetherc1390 to come togethera1398 meddlea1398 felterc1400 companya1425 swivec1440 japea1450 mellc1450 to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474 engender1483 fuck?a1513 conversec1540 jostlec1540 confederate1557 coeate1576 jumble1582 mate1589 do1594 conjoin1597 grind1598 consortc1600 pair1603 to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608 commix1610 cock1611 nibble1611 wap1611 bolstera1616 incorporate1622 truck1622 subagitate1623 occupya1626 minglec1630 copulate1632 fere1632 rut1637 joust1639 fanfreluche1653 carnalize1703 screw1725 pump1730 correspond1756 shag1770 hump1785 conjugate1790 diddle1879 to get some1889 fuckeec1890 jig-a-jig1896 perform1902 rabbit1919 jazz1920 sex1921 root1922 yentz1923 to make love1927 rock1931 mollock1932 to make (beautiful) music (together)1936 sleep1936 bang1937 lumber1938 to hop into bed (with)1951 to make out1951 ball1955 score1960 trick1965 to have it away1966 to roll in the hay1966 to get down1967 poontang1968 pork1968 shtup1969 shack1976 bonk1984 boink1985 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > have sexual intercourse with mingeOE haveOE knowc1175 ofliec1275 to lie with (or by)a1300 knowledgec1300 meetc1330 beliea1350 yknowc1350 touchc1384 deala1387 dightc1386 usea1387 takec1390 commona1400 to meet witha1400 servea1400 occupy?a1475 engender1483 jangle1488 to be busy with1525 to come in1530 visitc1540 niggle1567 mow1568 to mix one's thigh with1593 do1594 grind1598 pepper1600 yark1600 tumble1603 to taste of1607 compressc1611 jumble1611 mix?1614 consort?1615 tastea1616 bumfiddle1630 ingressa1631 sheet1637 carnal1643 night-work1654 bump1669 bumble1680 frig?c1680 fuck1707 stick1707 screw1719 soil1722 to do over1730 shag1770 hump1785 subagitatec1830 diddle1879 to give (someone) onec1882 charver1889 fuckeec1890 plugc1890 dick1892 to make a baby1911 to know (a person) in the biblical sense1912 jazz1920 rock1922 yentz1924 roll1926 to make love1927 shtupa1934 to give (or get) a tumble1934 shack1935 bang1937 to have it off1937 rump1937 tom1949 to hop into bed (with)1951 ball1955 to make it1957 plank1958 score1960 naughty1961 pull1965 pleasurea1967 to have away1968 to have off1968 dork1970 shaft1970 bonk1975 knob1984 boink1985 fand- 1920 A. C. Inman Diary 14 Apr. in Inman Diary (1985) I. 167 He had had sexual relations with her (in his slang ‘had jazzed her’). 1929 T. Wolfe Look homeward, Angel (1930) ii. xiv. 176 Jazz 'em all you like,..but get the money. 1930 J. T. Farrell in This Quarter July–Sept. 193 ‘She's cute. I jazzed her too,’ O'Keefe said. 1948 H. MacLennan Precipice (1949) i. 81 My sister was being jazzed by half the neighbourhood cats by the time she was fifteen. 1952 J. Thompson Killer inside Me ii. 9 The nicest looking guy I ever saw and you turn out to be a lousy snooping copper... I don't jazz cops. 1977 Transatlantic Rev. No. 60. 57 One guy will talk about ‘jazzing’ the waitress. 1996 G. P. Pelecanos Big Blowdown 59 Shit, Greek, you told me the next day that you jazzed her all up and down. 6. transitive. U.S. slang. To trick or tease (a person). Cf. razz v. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > banter [verb (transitive)] tauntc1530 railly1668 rally1672 banter1677 smoke1699 to get, take, or have a rise out of1703 joke1748 to run a rig1764 badinage1778 queer1778 quiz1787 to poke (one's) fun (at)1795 gammon1801 chaff1826 to run on ——1830 rig1841 trail1847 josh1852 jolly1874 chip1898 barrack1901 horse1901 jazz1927 to take the mike out ofa1935 to take the piss (out of)1945 to take the mickey (out of)1948 1927 Kalends of Waverly Press Sept. 2 In by-gone days, when it was desired to do what John Bull calls ‘spoofing’, we gave a man the ‘razzle dazzle’. Today we ‘josh’ him, ‘jazz’ him, ‘razz’ him, [etc.]. 1959 ‘W. Williams’ Ada Dallas ii. 174 There would be a lot of feeling that we thought the people were easy to jazz, and then they would be hell-bent to show us they weren't. 1967 G. Baxt Swing Low Sweet Harriet x. 112 ‘I just might give it some thought, at that’. ‘You're jazzing me.’ 1978 E. Cleaver Soul on Fire 84 And, over the years, I had refined my own technique of jazzing with the man, keeping him uptight. 2000 M. Maron Storm Track 31 Jason jazzed me that he'd given me such an easy double play that I owed him a good decision on his next DWI defense. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1912v.1914
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