| 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. |
| 2. | empty or insincere or exaggerated talk; | |
| 3. | A style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands. |
| Noun | 1. | jazz - empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz" |
| 2. | jazz - a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles | |
| 3. | jazz - a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands | |
| Verb | 1. | jazz - play something in the style of jazz |
| 2. | jazz - have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" Synonyms: bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, be intimate, lie with, make love, roll in the hay, screw, sleep with, hump, love, bed, bang, make out, know |
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