Meanings
- uncountableA form of aerobic exercise based on jazz dance.
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 1072 more examples
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 136Denise 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
present singular third person jazzercises · participle present jazzercising · participle past jazzercised · past jazzercised
- intransitiveTo perform this kind of exercise.
Origin
Blend of jazz + exercise, a trademark of the 1960s.
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