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jazz
noun- nonsense US, 1951
As applied to music, jazz was first recorded on January 15, 1917 in an advertisement in the Chicago Tribune for Bert Kelly’s Jaz (sic) Band. The term was earlier used in baseball writing, but soon became most firmly identified with music. - “Don’t hand me that jazz,” said the wolf impatiently. — Steve Allen, Bop Fables, p. 22, 1955
- No time, ain’t got no time for all this jazz with Opal. — Sara Harris, The Lords of Hell, p. 51, 1967
- The lawyers stepped forward to cop pleas for another chance, mercy and all that jazz. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 246, 1967
- You hear a lot of jazz about Soul Food. — Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, p. 29, 1968
- stuff US
- They want him to make the radio and the video and all that jazz–he can’t make all that jazz. — William “Lord” Buckley, The Nazz, 1951
- I could walk out this fuckin’ store with half a shelf fulla this jazz if I wanted to. — Odie Hawkins, Ghetto Sketches, p. 125, 1972
- semen US, 1932
Those who have seriously studied the etymology of “jazz” concur that it almost certainly derives from “jasm”, a variant of “jism”. Examples of “jasm”, however, meaning semen, have not been found, leaving the connection as after-the-fact, not before. - Momo wipes the jazz off Jasmin. — Anthony Petkovich, The X Factory, p. 190, 1997
- heroin CANADA
- — Richard A. Spears, The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink, p. 287, 1986
- cocaine UK
- He’s been at the jazz. — Imogen Edwards-Jones, Fashion Babylon, p. 1, 2006
▶ the jazz
the general details (of something) UK- [W]iggling their bodies in front of the DJ console... You know the jazz: fantastic! — Wayne Anthony, Spanish Highs, p. 156, 1999
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