单词 | to jazz around |
释义 | > as lemmasto jazz around 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. < as lemmas |
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