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[1] music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.
[2] a style of dance music, popular especially in the 1920s, arranged for a large band and marked by some of the features of jazz.
[3] dancing or a dance performed to such music, as with violent bodily motions and gestures.
[4] Slang . liveliness; spirit; excitement.
[5] Slang . insincere, exaggerated, or pretentious talk: Don't give me any of that jazz about your great job!
[6] Slang . similar or related but unspecified things, activities, etc.: He goes for fishing and all that jazz.
[7] of, relating to, or characteristic of jazz.
[8] to play (music) in the manner of jazz.
[9] Informal . to excite or enliven. to accelerate.
[10] Slang : Vulgar . to copulate with.
[11] to dance to jazz music.
[12] to play or perform jazz music.
[13] Informal . to act or proceed with great energy or liveliness.
[14] Slang : Vulgar . to copulate.
[15] jazz up , Informal . to add liveliness, vigor, or excitement to. to add ornamentation, color, or extra features to, in order to increase appeal or interest; embellish. to accelerate.
[16] US and Canadian slang excited or delighted
[17] a kind of music of African-American origin, characterized by syncopated rhythms, solo and group improvisation, and a variety of harmonic idioms and instrumental techniques. It exists in a number of styles Compare blues See also bebop, bop 1 (def. 1), Dixieland, free (def. 7), hard bop, harmolodics, mainstream (def. 2), modern jazz, New Orleans jazz, swing (def. 28), trad (as modifier ) a jazz band (in combination ) a jazzman
[18] informal enthusiasm or liveliness
[19] slang rigmarole; paraphernalia legal papers and all that jazz
[20] African-American slang , obsolete sexual intercourse
[21] Southern African slang a dance
[22] (intr) to play or dance to jazz music
[23] African-American slang , obsolete to have sexual intercourse with (a person)

Words related to Jazzed

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Words nearby Jazzed

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Origin of Jazzed

1905–10, Americanism ; 1915–20 for def 5 ; origin uncertain

Other words from Jazzed

jazz·er , noun

Word origin for Jazzed

C20: of unknown origin

Synonyms for Jazzed

stimulated, stoked, edgy, pumped-up