jazz

A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhyth

You dare to bring your jazz songs into my house!

You all look out now, here I come, everybody step aside, I’m gonna show you where from! I'm gonna blow in this horn and make you know that jazz is the king and let it be so!

Energy, excitement, excitability.

“You want something zippy there. Something with a bit of jazz to it!”

He loves the risk. The danger. He loves the jazz.

The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s).

and all that jazz

What is all this jazz lying around?

Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.

That show was the jazz!

This risotto is simply the jazz.

Nonsense.

Stop talking jazz.

To destroy; to ruin.

You’ve gone and jazzed it now!

To play (jazz music).

To dance to the tunes of jazz music.

To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting.

To complicate.

Don’t jazz it too much!

A diminutive of the male given name Jasper.

Jasper's teeth were set; he didn't move. "Jazz, this isn't anything you've seen before," Alice said quietly. "Trust me."

A diminutive of the male given name James.

His real name was James, but those who knew him seemed never to call him that. He was Jamesy, or more often Jazz.

A diminutive of the female given name Jasmine.

"He calls you Jazzikins." He would. He had. Couldn't call me Jazz or Jasmine the way everyone else did.