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jazz up (third-person singular simple present jazzes up, present participle jazzing up, simple past and past participle jazzed up)

  1. To make gaudy and bright.
    I jazzed up my room with some new posters.
    • 1987 [1984], James Ellroy, chapter 22, in Because the Night, New York: Avon, →ISBN, page 189:
      Johnny imagines all manner of chrome gadgetry that he could kipe and give to his father to jazz up his ’fifty-six Ford Vicky ragtop.
  2. To give a rhythm or melody reminiscent of jazz.
    They played a jazzed-up version of the original song.

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