Jazz

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  jazz
       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},
             {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
       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: {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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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