jazz up

English

Verb

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

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 make more interesting by additions.

   I jazzed up a supermarket pizza with olives and fried onions.

3. To give a rhythm or melody reminiscent of jazz.

   They played a jazzed-up version of the original song.

Translations

to make gaudy and bright

• Finnish: piristää (fi)
• German: aufmotzen (de), herausputzen (de)
• Turkish: ortamı canlandırmak