jazz \jazz\ n.
1. A type of music that originated in New Orleans around 1900
and developed through increasingly complex styles, but
generally featuring intricate rhythms, improvisation,
prominent solo segments, and great freedom in harmonic
idiom played frequently in a polyphonic style, on various
instruments including horn, saxophone, piano and
percussion, but rarely stringed instruments. [WordNet
sense 1]
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
2. empty or insincere or exaggerated talk; as, don't give me
any of that jazz. [WordNet sense 2]
Syn: wind, idle words, nothingness.
[WordNet 1.5]
3. A style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to
New Orleans jazz but played by large bands.
[WordNet 1.5]
Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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46 Moby Thesaurus words for "jazz":
acid rock, avant-garde jazz, ballroom music, baloney, bebop,
boogie-woogie, bop, bull, bushwa, concert, country rock, crap,
dance music, dances, dramatico-musical, flimflam, folk rock, guff,
hard rock, hot, hot jazz, instrumental, jazzed up, jazzy, jive,
mainstream jazz, malarkey, moonshine, musical suite, orchestral,
poppycock, rag, ragtime, ragtimey, rhythm-and-blues, rock,
rock-and-roll, suite, suite of dances, swing, swingy, symphonic,
syncopated, syncopated music, syncopation, the new music
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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jazz noun
1: empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a
lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz" [syn: wind,
idle words, nothingness]
2: a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans
around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex
styles
3: a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New
Orleans jazz but played by large bands
verb
1: play something in the style of jazz
2: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with
everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever
intimate with this man?" [syn: roll in the hay, love,
make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have
sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse,
have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, eff, hump,
lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on,
bonk]
Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
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