jazz up
phrasal verb
jazzed up; jazzing up; jazzes up
informal
: to make (something) more interesting, exciting, or attractive
The company wants to jazz up its image.
She tried to jazz the room up with a new rug.
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The result: a smooth, green sauce that’s beaming with fragrant summer flavor.
Stash a batch in your fridge to instantly jazz up anything the pesto touches.
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Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 13 July 2025
Instead, horehound candy tastes distinctly bittersweet and almost medicinal, due to its herby main ingredient that gets only slightly jazzed up with sugar or molasses.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 11 July 2025
And second, what a wild group: Bobby Darin arrangements up against Collins’s bluegrass up against Maybe Happy Ending’s lovely chamber jazz up against Sir ALW’s face-lift on his own work.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 4 June 2025
Up the sparkle with a whitening toothpaste or whitening pen, brighten up with a Crest white strips kit that uses LED light, or jazz up your daily tooth-brushing with an electric toothbrush.
—Jamie Allison Sanders, People.com, 27 May 2025
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Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 13 July 2025
Instead, horehound candy tastes distinctly bittersweet and almost medicinal, due to its herby main ingredient that gets only slightly jazzed up with sugar or molasses.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 11 July 2025
And second, what a wild group: Bobby Darin arrangements up against Collins’s bluegrass up against Maybe Happy Ending’s lovely chamber jazz up against Sir ALW’s face-lift on his own work.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 4 June 2025
Up the sparkle with a whitening toothpaste or whitening pen, brighten up with a Crest white strips kit that uses LED light, or jazz up your daily tooth-brushing with an electric toothbrush.
—Jamie Allison Sanders, People.com, 27 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for jazz up
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“Jazz up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jazz%20up. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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