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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz" [syn: wind, malarkey, malarky, idle words, jazz, 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 v
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: sleep together, 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, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1913 1. a. American music developed especially from ragtime and blues and characterized by propulsive syncopated rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, varying degrees of improvisation, and often deliberate distortions of pitch and timbre b. popular dance music influenced by jazz and played in a loud rhythmic manner 2. empty talk ; humbug <spouted all the scientific jazz — Pete Martin> 3. similar but unspecified things ; stuff <that wind, and the waves, and all that jazz — John Updike> • jazzlike adjective II. verb Date: 1917 transitive verb 1. a. enliven — usually used with up b. accelerate 2. to play in the manner of jazz intransitive verb 1. to go here and there ; gad 2. to dance to or play jazz

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 music of US Negro origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usu. a regular or forceful rhythm. 2 sl. pretentious talk or behaviour, nonsensical stuff (all that jazz). --v.intr. play or dance to jazz. Phrases and idioms: jazz up brighten or enliven. Derivatives: jazzer n. Etymology: 20th c.: orig. uncert.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(jazzes, jazzing, jazzed) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. Jazz is a style of music that was invented by African American musicians in the early part of the twentieth century. Jazz music has very strong rhythms and often involves improvisation. The pub has live jazz on Sundays. N-UNCOUNT: oft N n

Moby Thesaurus

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