noun, verb
noun [U] a type of music with strong rhythms, in which the players often IMPROVISE (= make up the music as they are playing), originally created by African American musicians:
a jazz band / club * traditional / modern jazz * jazz musicians
IDIOMS
and all that jazz (spoken, informal) and things like that:
How's it going? You know-love, life and all that jazz.
Part of speech: verb
PHRASALVERBS
jazz sth<->up (informal)
1 to make sth more interesting, exciting or attractive:
Jazz up the room with some new furniture
2 to make a piece of music sound more modern, or more like popular music or jazz:
It's a jazzed up version of an old tune.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for jazz is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is jazz a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, jazz is tagged as verb.
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