pizzazz

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1. uncountableFlair, vitality, or zest; energy; vigor.First known use 1930s

   The show had a lot of pizzazz, with glittering costumes and upbeat music.

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   Pizazz, to quote the editor of the Harvard Lampoon, is an indefinable dynamic quality, the je ne sais quoi of function; as, for instance, adding Scotch puts the pizazz into a drink. Certain clothes have it, too. 1. There's pizazz in this rust evening coat, swinging wide in back, jutting crazily over the shoulders, clasped with a cord at the throat.

   1937, Harper’s Bazaar, volume LXXI, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Corp., →OCLC, page 116

   [Rahiem] Classified as a lover with a certain pizzazz / And you might even call it razzamatazz

   1979, “We Rap More Mellow”, performed by The Younger Generation

   Who says a beer can't be exciting, folks. Let me tell you something, folks, this here little can has got more oomph! More pazazz! More body than Mae West any day!

   1979, Jill Williams, Rainbow Jones, Denver, Colo.: Pioneer Drama Service, →OCLC, act I, scene iii, page 17

   With his miner's helmet in one hand, a white towel in the other, [Mario] Sepúlveda began to dance. He spun with the gusto and pzazz of a huaso, a Chilean cowboy.

   2011, Jonathan Franklin, “TV Reality”, in The 33: The Ultimate Account of the Chilean Miners’ Dramatic Rescue, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 180

   Driven by legalized gambling, many of the [Las Vegas] strip's motels had morphed into giant hotels with gambling floors and night clubs and surrounded by large parking lots. Closeness to Hollywood (with its fantasy world of entertainment bizazz) influenced strip architecture.

   2011, John A. Jakle, Keith A. Sculle, “Observing Roadside America”, in Remembering Roadside America: Preserving the Recent Past as Landscape and Place, Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, →ISBN, pages 53–54