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jazzercise en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of jazz + exercise, a trademark of the 1960s.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A form of aerobic exercise based on jazz dance.
    • Denise reports that one of the members of her Jazzercise class works for City Hospital, where the nurses also are organized. 1983, Belinda E. Puetz, Linda J. Shinn, Networking for Nurses: Intra and Interprofessional Relations, page 148:
    • I don't know when the hearse is gonna be ready, and Mama has her Jazzercise on Mondays. 2004, Karin Slaughter, A Faint Cold Fear: A Novel, page 107:
    • Probably because when she got her period, her father had been so completely freaked out he'd left her in the bathroom, bleeding onto wadded-up toilet paper, for three hours, until Sydelle returned from her Jazzercise class with a box of sanitary napkins. 2002, Jennifer Weiner, In Her Shoes: A Novel, page 136:

Relateds

dancersize · dancercise · aquasize · sexercise · aquacise · boxercise

jazzercise en · VERB

Etymology

Blend of jazz + exercise, a trademark of the 1960s.

Meanings

  1. (intransitive) To perform this kind of exercise.

Forms

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jazzercises Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
jazzercising Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
jazzercised Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
jazzercised Tense=Past lexicographic