| 单词 | jazz baby |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjazz baby 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. < as lemmas |
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