Word Study
jazz
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun jazz has 3 senses
- jazz(n = noun.communication) idle words, malarkey, malarky, nothingness, wind - empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz" is a kind of talk, talking
- jazz(n = noun.communication) Array - a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles; Array has particulars: scat, scat singing, bebop, bop, boogie, boogie-woogie, cool jazz, funk, hot jazz, modern jazz, neo jazz, new jazz, trad, jive, swing, swing music
- jazz(n = noun.communication) Array - a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands; Array is a kind of dance music
is a kind of popular music, popular music genre
Derived forms verb jazz1, adjective jazzy1
Derived forms verb jazz1, adjective jazzy1
Verb jazz has 2 senses
- jazz(v = verb.creation) Array - play something in the style of jazz; Array is one way to play, spiel
- jazz(v = verb.contact) bang, be intimate, bed, 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, hump, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with - have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" is one way to copulate, couple, mate, pair
Derived forms noun jazz3, noun jazz2
Sample sentence:
They will jazz the duet
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
CIDE DICTIONARY
jazz, n.
- 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 1.5]
- empty or insincere or exaggerated talk; as, don't give me any of that jazz. [WordNet 1.5]
- A style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
jazz, 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.
--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.
Idiom
jazz up brighten or enliven.
Derivative
jazzer n.
Etymology
20th c.: orig. uncert.
THESAURUS
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
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