jazz age

Speakeasies and syncopation

A casual or lowercase reference to the Jazz Age, used when the term appears mid-sentence or in informal contexts.

The phrase denotes the 1920s American cultural period characterized by jazz music, speakeasies, flappers, and exuberant social change.

The party had a jazz age feel to it. (Capitalized Jazz Age is the standard form.)

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swing · decadence · hedonism · saxophone · shimmy · scat singing · syncopation · cloche · nightlife · pearls · glamour · excess · ragtime · fringe · big band · blues · improvisation · trumpet

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historical era/cultural period

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1930s global economic crisis

Victorian era · Gilded Age · World War I · Progressive Era

cultural mood/spirit

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Britain under its longest-reigning queen

Victorian morality · Puritanism · temperance movement · old guard · traditionalism

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age, aged, jazz, ages, jazzy, jazzier, agedness, jazzman, jazziness

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Mostly American · Timeless · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G