1. n. (music genre) 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 n
2. n. Energy, excitement, excitability.
3. n. The substance or makeup of a thing.
What jazz were you referring to earlier?
What is all this jazz lying around?
4. n. Unspecified thing(s).
I'm just going down to the shops and jazz.
5. n. (with positive terms) Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
That show was the jazz!
This risotto is simply the jazz.
6. n. Nonsense.
Stop talking jazz.
7. v. To destroy.
You’ve gone and jazzed it now!
8. v. To play (jazz music).
9. v. To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
10. v. To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting; excite
11. v. To complicate.
Don’t jazz it too much!
12. v. (intransitive, US slang) To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.
13. v. (intransitive) To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.
