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🎷 A music style 🗣️ Meaningless talk ✨ To make exciting 🍑 To have sex 🎷 To play lively music
to jazz

to jazz

13 4.6
To make something more lively and attractive
  • verb
  • /dʒæz/
  • Informal
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  • But I wanted to add a hint of glitter to jazz this up a bit!

So quite frankly, I think GM is trying to jazz up its hipness by partnering with Nikola.

Examples

  • In this talk, Connie Hale teaches an easy way anyone can jazz up their sentences: use better verbs.

    Blog text (6)

  • You do a field study on an old field to figure out how to jazz up production.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • But this does jazz it up slightly.

  • We're gonna jazz it up And have us a ball

    West Side Story (2021)

  • "Well, we'll just have to 'jazz it up,' like Daddy says."

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Jazz it up a little.

    The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)

  • Last year, we tried to jazz things up a bit and added a bingo game after students filled out the map.

    Academic text (2014)

  • If we want the media's help, we need to jazz it up a little bit.

    Psych:9 (2010)

  • It'd sure jazz up the act and make it easier to sell.

    Gypsy (1993)

  • We should jazz up the party with some colorful decorations.

Synonyms

to jazz up
vsto jazz
  • Informal
2 5.1

Make something more interesting and lively, like a room or outfit

adds energy and style or decorations instead of just simple liveliness
enlivening
vsto jazz
1 4.8

Giving something more energy and excitement

focuses more on adding style or decoration as well as energy

Idioms

all that jazz
  • Informal
1 7.9

Other similar things you could mention

Phrasal Verbs

to jazz up
  • Informal
2 5.1

Make something more interesting and lively, like a room or outfit

to jazz around
  • Archaic
9.3

Move around without a plan to have fun

Compounds

jazz musician
22 2.3

A person who plays or writes jazz music

jazz band
8 2.3

A small group of musicians who play jazz with instruments like saxophone or trumpet

jazz festival
4 2.7

A music event where jazz musicians play live over several days

modern jazz
3 3.6

A style of jazz with complex chords and rhythms where musicians make up music as they play

cool jazz
1 4.5

A relaxed style of jazz with slow beats and smooth, calm solos

Jazz Age
1 5.0

A period in the 1920s in the United States with lively jazz music, parties, and social change

jazz group
1 2.1

A small group of musicians who play jazz together

jazz standard
1 3.6

A well-known jazz song that many musicians play and improvise on

live jazz
1 2.3

Musicians play jazz music for people at a place not from a recording

hot jazz
  • Archaic
1 4.7

A lively, emotional jazz style with strong rhythm and improvised solos

new jazz
1 6.7

Jazz music after 1940 that uses new ideas and different forms

sweet jazz
1 4.1

A gentle type of jazz with a steady beat, medium speed, little improvisation, and a warm clear melody

jazz-rock
4.5

Music that mixes jazz solo playing with rock rhythms and electric instruments

jazz fusion
3.8

Music that mixes jazz and rock using instruments like electric guitar and keyboard

neo jazz
5.7

A style of music that mixes jazz with modern sounds like electronic music

How Lively

to transform
523 3.4
to liven up
  • Informal
66 3.9
to jazz
  • Informal
13 4.6
to spruce up
  • Informal
13 3.8
to touch up
8 3.8

Surface Forms

jazz infinitive
jazzed past
jazzed past participle
jazzing present participle
jazzes third person singular

Etymology

Jazz meaning to make something more lively or attractive comes from the music's lively spirit — to jazz (up) is to add 'pep', style or bright decoration. So when you jazz a presentation you add life and excitement.