Jazz

English Meaning

1. Music A style of music, native to America, characterized by a strong but flexible rhythmic understructure with solo and ensemble improvisations on basic tunes and chord patterns and, more recently, a highly sophisticated harmonic idiom.
2. Music Big band dance music.
3. Slang Animation; enthusiasm.
4. Slang Nonsense.
5. Slang Miscellaneous, unspecified things: brought the food and all the jazz to go with it.
6. Music To play in a jazz style.
7. Slang To exaggerate or lie to: Don't jazz me.
8. Slang To give great pleasure to; excite: The surprise party jazzed the guest of honor.
9. Slang To cause to accelerate.
10. Slang To exaggerate or lie.
11. jazz up Slang To make more interesting; enliven: jazzed up the living area with beaded curtains.