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  • verb Present participle of jazz.

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Examples

  • CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's called jazzing, a dance of mixed race, so-called Cape Coloreds say they created long before some of these young aficionados were born.

    CNN Transcript Jan 5, 2002 2002

  • a workman who has made money during the war to buy a piano -- and to hear people talk that seems to be one of their most dastardly crimes -- when it is quite all right for his employer, who has made more money out of the war, to pay five pounds for one good dinner, or a night's "jazzing"?

    Over the Fireside with Silent Friends Richard King 1913

  • So the very modest charm of what was essentially a two-hander (or rather, three-hander) is spoiled by even this mild jazzing up.

    Michael Giltz: Theater: "Driving Miss Daisy" Sputters, "Wings" Doesn't Soar Michael Giltz 2010

  • College admissions officers are jazzing up their acceptance notifications — sending out fancy certificates, T-shirts, tubes of confetti, or Internet links to videos of fireworks — in an effort to inspire loyalty and lock in commitments from today's fickle and worried high school seniors.

    The Kept-Up Academic Librarian: 2009

  • So the very modest charm of what was essentially a two-hander (or rather, three-hander) is spoiled by even this mild jazzing up.

    Michael Giltz: Theater: "Driving Miss Daisy" Sputters, "Wings" Doesn't Soar Michael Giltz 2010

  • SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. is jazzing up its Internet search results in an effort to orchestrate a revenue revival.

    Yahoo Revs Up Search Results In Turnaround Quest The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • As schools compete for students and faculty come under pressure to boost enrollment in their classes, colleges from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to Wellesley are jazzing up course catalogs to entice a generation of students drawn to the dramatic.

    Colleges Find Juicy Titles Swell Enrollment 2009

  • College admissions officers are jazzing up their acceptance notifications — sending out fancy certificates, T-shirts, tubes of confetti, or Internet links to videos of fireworks — in an effort to inspire loyalty and lock in commitments from today's fickle and worried high school seniors.

    Admissions Adding Glitz To The Acceptance Package 2009

  • Rather than jazzing it up with exotic seasonings, she keeps it simple.

    Giving Guests a Sense of Adventure at a Cookout Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan 2011

  • I also bought some smaller ships for the Human Fleet which needs a little jazzing up.

    Cold Wars 2010 wrap up « Third Point of Singularity 2010

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