Etymology

Jazz Age

Today it means: A period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity in the United States. Full definition →

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The story

Popularized by F. Scott Fitzgerald in Tales of the Jazz Age (1922).

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