C20: popularized by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who called a collection of his short stories Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
Jazz Age in American English
US
a period of U.S. history in the 1920s noted for general prosperity, financial speculation, Prohibition, the emergence of organized crime, profound social, cultural, and literary change, and the influence of jazz
Word origin
? < phrase attributed to F. Scott Fitzgerald
Examples of 'jazz age' in a sentence
jazz age
But the Jazz Age was over and the era of psychotropic drugs and HMOs was a bad fit for the once-elegant hospital.